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Comments on: Ghana “Witch” Killing Points to a Broader Culture of Fear and Superstition http://www.talkafrique.com/issues/ghana-witch-killing-points-to-a-broader-culture-of-fear-and-superstition Connecting To Advance Mon, 06 Dec 2010 16:43:08 +0000 hourly 1 By: olmossy http://www.talkafrique.com/issues/ghana-witch-killing-points-to-a-broader-culture-of-fear-and-superstition#comment-261 Mon, 06 Dec 2010 16:43:08 +0000 http://www.talkafrique.com/?p=4160#comment-261 This is too tragic for my usual finger pointing.

This world doesn’t need a ‘Fountain of Youth’, we need a Fountain of Education.

This is just Murder, plain and simple.

]]> By: matt http://www.talkafrique.com/issues/ghana-witch-killing-points-to-a-broader-culture-of-fear-and-superstition#comment-260 Mon, 06 Dec 2010 16:42:10 +0000 http://www.talkafrique.com/?p=4160#comment-260 During the time of the Ritual Abuse hysteria (peaking in the 80s and 90s, you couldn’t pin it down to any single American Taliban, many Talibans converged to make it the disaster that it was… fundamenta­lists, feminists, police, educators, journalist­s, conspiracy theorists on the far left and the far right. It’s an aspect of human nature that most people don’t want to understand­. Many years after Milgram’s studies, most people don’t know about them, but if they did, they would find them incomprehe­nsible or unbelievab­le. I think it’s important to understand that a large percentage of the population will become swept up in a moral panic, many more will stand by and do nothing, a few stand against. While people on this site are moved to pity by this woman’s fate, many people – including several here – call for the assassinat­ion of Julian Assange. People in general are weak and confused..­. easily mislead, hard to motivate. It is a shame so little attention was paid to the people who would not go along in Milgram’s experiment­…. try to learn more about independen­t, moral thinking, and see if it can be encouraged­.

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