Dear Bettina Arndt,
You recently interviewed Mark Smith, Professor of Social Work at the University of Dundee, Scotland, and an expert on residential child care settings.
The interview details the collective hysteria of the 1980s and 90s and the belief that our modern rationality and obsession with sexual imagination seems to make people more susceptible to the spread of these panics. The premise was that while the hysteria was based on some real events, the reaction was completely out of proportion and disconnected from reality. This hysteria then spreads via a collective “believe the victim” mindset and a generalized belief that all men are abusers. These moral panics erase due process wherever they pop up.
I’ve written about the dozen worldwide moral panics that have spread from MN since the 1980’s and the resulting evaporation of due process. The Jordan, MN Day Care Sex Scandal in 1983 was the index case of the particular moral panic you referenced in your interview.
I watched the Day Care Sex Hysteria spread around the world as a teenager. In my 20’s, I watched the Jacob Wetterling abduction story in Stearns County, MN become the basis for the Wetterling Act, part of the 1994 Crime Bill. This, of course, set the precedent for all subsequent Sex Offender Registries.
Coincidentally, the Duluth Model, the Dworkin Mackinnon Anti-Pornography Bill, Dr. Paul Marx – The Father of the ProLife Movement, and the Marxist Feminist Architect (Patriarchy/Gender as Social Construct) Kate Millett are also from MN.
The powerful human drive to protect childhood innocence in a time of increasing sexualism seems to bring Christian fundamentalists and Feminists together as unlikely bedfellows.
The combination of Feminists and Christian fundamentalists coming together in this unique, mosquito-laden swampy landscape – with the furthest inland port city, home to the headwaters of the mighty Mississippi – seems to catalyze these ideas. Most of North America is downstream from here, and it shows.
After years of research, I believe Kate Millett is the source of the collective nature of this hysteria, her 1971 book “Sexual Politics” was a Critical Theory mind-virus that exploits human biology and spreads hysteria from MN and beyond.
In 2020, I interviewed Mallory Millett, sister of Kate Millett, and discovered my mother and aunts all went to St. Paul’s Catholic Girls Schools with Millett.
The similarity between the Kavanaugh protestors banging on the door of the Supreme Court, Black Lives Matter protestors burning cities after the death of George Floyd, and the pattern of histrionic behavior of both my mother and Millett, all lead me to believe this is a global network of sympathetics.
I’d very much appreciate it if you would interview Mallory Millett, who was at ground zero of the launch of the Marxist Feminist Movement. I believe the world needs to hear her story in order for this hysteria to end.
Jewel Eldora
Referenced in your Interview with Professor Smith
McMartin Kindergarten Day Care Case
The Secret of Bryn Estyn, the Making of a Modern Witchhunt by, The Richard Webster about the North Wales Child Abuse Sex Scandal and the resulting Waterhouse Report
Revisiting Moral Panics Theory in Practice. JSTOR Paper co-written by Prof Smith.
Wrongful Allegations of Sexual Child Abuse by Ros Burnett
Truth and Indignation: Canada’s Truth and Reconciliation Commission on Indian Residential Schools by Ronald Niezen
