The "these kids are breaking into my house and stealing all my shit, we gotta stop Halloween" to "we keep poisoning our own children and pretending strangers are doing this, we gotta stop Halloween" to "we are hallucinating true crime, we gotta stop Halloween" pipeline

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So there's been this centuries long war on Halloween, against *children*, that adults have kept losing. Over and over and over again.

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Every generation of children would independently evolve their own form of rampaging mobs, and adults would try their damnedest to legislate this away. They'd ban Halloween, constrain it, do all kinds of things to stop it. And their kids would adapt.

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Most of the modern sanitization of Halloween came from repurposing things as being *for* child safety, which were to defend *against* them. Stuff that was originally meant to keep a gang of kids from burning your house down, became stuff that promised to keep your children safe from adult strangers

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en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mischie... Halloween and Mischief Night kind of merged over centuries into a free for all of children running amok and terrorizing communities.

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