[lbo-talk] Irish priests beat, raped children

[Michael McIntyre]

NGO workers would get nowhere with this campaign unless they were able to
build it into some kind of mass hysteria.  Hell, even The Wire, a show with
some following on this list (me included), built a whole season around this
theme.  The NGO workers can't make this machine run if it has no resonance.
Same with the social workers in the 80s and 90s who promoted the sexual
abuse hysteria.

And as long as I'm breaking my STFU for the day rule - regarding Jim's
earlier suggestion that the Left in Britain ignored the sexual abuse
hysteria or signed on for it:  I think this was much less common on this
side of the pond, partly because Ace got on the right side of this issue
early and hit it often.  I'm also pretty sure that The Guardian came out on
the right side of this issue.  Unless that's a case of recovered memory
syndrome on my part!  ;-)

MM

On Fri, May 22, 2009 at 6:05 PM, Wendy Lyon <wendy.lyon at gmail.com> wrote:


> On 22/05/2009, Michael McIntyre <morbidsymptoms at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> >  By your logic, we'd have to attribute the current mania about the white
> >  slave trade - oops, I meant "sex trafficking" - to a few over-zealous
> NGO
> >  workers.
>
> NGO workers are far and away the driving force behind the sex
> trafficking mania in Ireland. Who's driving it where you are?
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