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minus-squaredamnthefilibuster@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·8 months agoTheory - mass media creates the narrative that witches in the US are Devil worshippers, often with a pretty manly depiction of the Devil, thereby trying to enforce that they “derive their power from their relationship to a man”.
minus-squareWrufieotnak@feddit.orglinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·8 months agoYes, but that is hardly new. The church already did that in the middle ages and afterwards during the witch hunts.
Theory - mass media creates the narrative that witches in the US are Devil worshippers, often with a pretty manly depiction of the Devil, thereby trying to enforce that they “derive their power from their relationship to a man”.
Yes, but that is hardly new. The church already did that in the middle ages and afterwards during the witch hunts.