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Originally Posted by Textcritic
This also struck me as an odd comment, but I wonder if FanIn80 is misconstruing one type of collective behaviour for another. I wonder if he is drawing from the Satanic Panic of the 1980s to make his point that diary entries from a young adult "would have been taken more seriously back then." But I think these were different situations stemming from different circumstances—one of the reasons so many people were convinced by the testimony of small children responding to leading questions was because of how bizarrely sensationalistic the accusations were. It was long thought that children were simply incapable of making such things up, and thus must be true.
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That's a fair point. I suppose I am melding those two scenarios together. It's amazing how much things have changed over my 47 years... I can only imagine what my 80 year-old father must have seen evolve.