12: So You Want To Stop Child Abuse (w/Regan Williams & Dr Theo Wildcroft)

Last week, we started to explore how the real issue of child trafficking is being weaponized by bad-faith actors. This week we’re joined by two experts that explain the overt and subtle impacts involved. Regan Williams, CEO and founder of Seen & Heard, a nonprofit that provides youth in foster care with professional and personal development via the performing arts, offers a ground zero perspective of trafficked children and teens (and the people that actually care for them) being made even more invisible by conspiratorial clicktivism. Religious Studies scholar and trauma-sensitive yoga consultant, Dr. Theo Wildcroft, joins us from England to discuss the consequences of trauma histories being hijacked for political and emotional manipulation. She offers insight into the mythic elements of conspirituality-to-Q that cannot be ignored if we want to understand how trauma is both stored and resisted. On This Week in Conspirituality, Matthew considers the absurdity of David Wolfe accusing the medical community of not doing anything about cancer. Julian investigates anti-Semitic blood libel themes in QAnon and Derek discusses the chronic dangers of seeking utopia. Show Notes To report abuse/neglect, call the child abuse hotline: 800.540.4000 (LA county) / 800.422.4453 (National) Epstein is a real pedophile. Why are QAnon and Pizzagate so focused on fake ones? The Dark Virality of a Hollywood Blood-Harvesting Conspiracy Just how anti-Semitic is QAnon? QAnon isn’t newly anti-Semitic—it’s always been that way Q supporters are incorrectly doxxing journalists who report on QAnon as Jewish Nearly 600,000 people have voted for candidates who support QAnon Here are the QAnon supporters running for Congress in 2020 QAnon Supporter Who Made Bigoted Videos Wins Ga. Primary, Likely Heading To Congress Prominent Republicans back a conspiracy theory-promoting congressional candidate in Georgia Argentino on -- -- -- Support us on Patreon Pre-order Conspirituality: How New Age Conspiracy Theories Became a Health Threat: America | Canada Follow us on Instagram | Twitter: Derek | Matthew | Julian Original music by EarthRise SoundSystem Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices