Satanic ritual abuse wank
I dithered about whether to put this in unfunnybusiness or here, but in the end Satanic Ritual Abuse is not real, and what the person who said it was said was so funny it belonged here.

People who blatantly deny the existence of ritual abuse after being offered solid resources to the contrary demonstrate that they don’t need evidence about its existence. Instead, when they continue to deny its existence in a seemingly obsessive manner, they are more likely trolling for new victims in hopes that responding survivors will – while more emotional – slip-up and provide vulnerable, personal information.

There you go. If you deny the existance of ritual abuse, it's because you're looking for new victims to ritually abuse.

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melange
2009-12-15 08:34 pm UTC (link)

I am just saying that it is possible that crazy people might have abused their children in some ritual-like manner

And I am just saying that this is not the same thing as Satanic Ritual Abuse. Unless, of course, you think that raping a child for religious purposes is something that only Satanists do. (I'd also like to point out that, as far as I know, none of the people accused of practicing SRA were actually Satanists.)

it strikes me as callous at best to automatically assume any child who claims to have suffered such abuse is making it up or has had false memories planted.

Because that's exactly what everyone here is saying. When you're dealing with children, particularly very young children, you have to take into account that children a) will lie if they think that's what adults want them to do, and b) cannot differentiate between fantasy and reality as easily as adults can. We should not be able to convict someone on the word of a four year old, especially not one who needed twenty hours of prodding by a psychologist before they would say anything.

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