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I have never once heard it suggested that "middle class white women" are kidnapped off the street and trafficked in any volume. I've only ever heard it spoken a
by pc86 4y ago
I have never once heard it suggested that "middle class white women" are kidnapped off the street and trafficked in any volume. I've only ever heard it spoken about in terms of (mostly adolescent/very young) homeless people, immigrants, prostitutes, etc. As you said, people who for the most part are not noticed when they go missing.
- stouset 4y agoIt’s been a weirdly prevalent theme in conservative political circles the past several years.
- robonerd 4y agoThe only trafficking I've heard conservatives talk a lot about is trafficking of kids, particularly Epstein, Rotherham rape gangs, and also deep-end stuff like pizzagate. Conservatives being outspoken about trafficking of middle class women is news to me.
- stouset 4y agoThere's a ton of fearmongering over people getting snatched up off the streets and being brought into trafficking in QAnon circles.
- dkarl 4y agoThere was a "white slavery" panic back in the day, a century or more ago. It was mostly driven by the puritanical assumption that any woman engaging in sex work must be imprisoned against her will, but it often went hand-in-hand with racism towards the supposed perpetrators. I think the idea that random middle-class people were abducted off the street and forced into prostitution hasn't been mainstream in a long, long time, but it seems like a perfect fit for the current appetite for right-wing fantasy, so I won't be surprised if we start hearing about it again.