You have so much to learn about people who feed into the Satanic panic. Cherry picking is by definition how they get there. One of Alex Jones biggest boggiemen for years was a subsection of a law that allowed medical testing on troops, and he always ignores the very next section that states that it all requires informed consent. Then lies and act like people would have no idea.

During covid he found an exercise that tried to assume 4 different future scenarios that may come into play, and ignored the positive leaning ones or nuetralish ones and went straight for the heavily authoritarian exercise because it used a possible pandemic as a background setting, then claimed it was all planned out and proof Covid was a bioweapon attack.

People like this willfully ignore things that give context, and will often repackage it without the context anytime they can.

[–] CaptnNMorgan@reddthat.com 0 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (1 children)

So "sacrifice child" is a common term used in what language? I don't believe in religion but I also don't know a whole lot about computer science. So I would believe you if you said it meant something.

But seeing the words "sacrifice child" would rightfully startle anybody. It's nothing to do with cherry picking or satanic panic. It's everything to do with those two very specific words being right next to each other. Nothing else.

[–] chatokun@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 5 months ago

Part of the whole panic and cherry picking thing is also an important next step: refusal to do proper research. A simple web search would correctly show you that it's harmless. One might also find sources that claim it's actually satanic, but they'd find those in blogs, social media, or message boards, while legitimate and official sites would show the correct info.

It's up to the person to determine which one is correct. Most logical people would go with the simplest and least sensational definition being the correct one, while those with a conspiratorial mind view would ignore such common sense and choose to panic.