Other than the fact that the needle spiking accusation targets all males at large rather than a specific accused, this seems to be a hysteria not unlike past hysterias. They always seem to serve the interests of some powerful class against a powerless class of victims who are portrayed as perpetrators.
It reminds me of the daycare sex-abuse hysteria and the satanic ritual hysteria of the 1980s and 1990s which sent innocent people to prison, took children from loving parents and put them in foster care, and destroyed countless lives (think Wenatchee, WA, McMartin preschool in Los Angeles, Fells Acre daycare in Malden, MA, Wee Care in NJ, Little Rascals in NC, etc., etc.), all in service of advancing the careers of local District Attorneys who climbed the ladder on the backs of the innocent people they prosecuted.
Not long before that was the "recovered memory" hysteria, which has since been conclusively shown by memory researchers, esp. Dr. Elizabeth Loftus, to have been implanted false memories.
And then there's the Blood Libel, the false accusation that Jews kidnap and kill Christian children because Christian blood is supposedly needed to make matzoh for Passover. (Have you ever seen a Passover matzoh? It's a cracker made of flour and water and nothing else.) But this false accusation has stoked hysteria among Christians throughout Europe for a millennium, resulting in Christians murdering untold numbers of Jews. The skeletons of one set of Jewish victims of such a Christian-perpetrated massacre were recently found at the bottom of a well in Norwich, England. (https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/bones-found-in-medieval-well-likely-belong-to-victims-of-anti-semitic-massacre-180980692/) Among other motivations, murders of Jews throughout Europe in the Middle Ages enabled the looting of their property by their Christian neighbors.
Stoking hysteria to amplify the number of false accusations always serves the interests of the powerful. In the case of the needle-spiking hysteria, the powerful are the MeToo types who gain power by feigning victimization.
I haven't read Mein Kampf, so I don't know whether Hitler actually made this argument or not, nor the context if he in fact did make such an argument. But if he did, my response is that even a broken click is right twice a day.
Other than the fact that the needle spiking accusation targets all males at large rather than a specific accused, this seems to be a hysteria not unlike past hysterias. They always seem to serve the interests of some powerful class against a powerless class of victims who are portrayed as perpetrators.
It reminds me of the daycare sex-abuse hysteria and the satanic ritual hysteria of the 1980s and 1990s which sent innocent people to prison, took children from loving parents and put them in foster care, and destroyed countless lives (think Wenatchee, WA, McMartin preschool in Los Angeles, Fells Acre daycare in Malden, MA, Wee Care in NJ, Little Rascals in NC, etc., etc.), all in service of advancing the careers of local District Attorneys who climbed the ladder on the backs of the innocent people they prosecuted.
Not long before that was the "recovered memory" hysteria, which has since been conclusively shown by memory researchers, esp. Dr. Elizabeth Loftus, to have been implanted false memories.
And then there's the Blood Libel, the false accusation that Jews kidnap and kill Christian children because Christian blood is supposedly needed to make matzoh for Passover. (Have you ever seen a Passover matzoh? It's a cracker made of flour and water and nothing else.) But this false accusation has stoked hysteria among Christians throughout Europe for a millennium, resulting in Christians murdering untold numbers of Jews. The skeletons of one set of Jewish victims of such a Christian-perpetrated massacre were recently found at the bottom of a well in Norwich, England. (https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/bones-found-in-medieval-well-likely-belong-to-victims-of-anti-semitic-massacre-180980692/) Among other motivations, murders of Jews throughout Europe in the Middle Ages enabled the looting of their property by their Christian neighbors.
Stoking hysteria to amplify the number of false accusations always serves the interests of the powerful. In the case of the needle-spiking hysteria, the powerful are the MeToo types who gain power by feigning victimization.
"They always seem to serve the interests of some powerful class against a powerless class of victims who are portrayed as perpetrators."
Sounds a bit like Mein Kampf.
I haven't read Mein Kampf, so I don't know whether Hitler actually made this argument or not, nor the context if he in fact did make such an argument. But if he did, my response is that even a broken click is right twice a day.
Oops. That should have said "broken clock"!