Editing Satanic Panic (section)

==The Satanic Panic in the Modern Era==
There are still some lingering attempts to tap into this long-dead phenomena - in 2013, several news articles claimed that in Israel, playing D&D was actually frowned upon by the Israeli Defence Force. Almost immediately, reporters who'd done ''actual'' research reported that this was complete bullshit; D&D is hugely popular in Israel, to the point that a good DM can actually get paid money for being willing to run peoples' games. This situation in the IDF was probably confined to the [[House Cawdor|certain type of Jewish fundamentalist who objects to pictures of women being published in newspapers]]. Fundamentalists, who by their very nature assume that any form of media not endorsing whatever cause they follow must be evil, still sometimes make the same old complaints under the pretense that "[[Illuminati|the Satanists are powerful enough to hide the evidence]]" in-between bouts of attacking other boogeymen, but nobody listens outside of their own echo chambers for the most part. While the panic has never truly stopped since its inception, the major driving forces have long since subsided in the eyes of the public, and the more contemporary forms of media are more likely to be targeted by fundies nowadays due to their greater prevalence in society - most notably [[/v/|video games]], but TV and movies remain a favored punching bag as well.

On an amusing note, Thomas Radecki would later be arrested in 2013 and sentenced for 11-22 years in prison for over-prescribing addictive opioids through a crooked rehab program, dealing in proceeds of unlawful activity, and trading said opioids to 13 different female patients in exchange for sex. As is the trend elsewhere, it figures that the loudest moral guardians usually have a few skeletons in their closets.

And of course, there is QAnon, which is the lovechild of all the above with the special brand of insanity found only on [[/pol/]]. It would be better for everyone if we kept it at that.  

This was the Satanic Panic. Good fucking riddance, but it's a shame that it won't stay dead.