Thread by @DirkSchwenk

I don't even know where to begin with this article. The Mormon LDS church is offering $250,000,000 if it can be included in liability protection alongside the Boy Scouts of America over child sex abuse.

apnews.com/article/busine…

I know there are millions of Americans that find great solace in their religions, but there are times when it seems like the mega institutions are basically child rape and grift machines.

And - perhaps this is wrong - as institutions they seem more directed at boys. Even if not the primary target, millions of boys in America have been targeted and abused.

Many - maybe most - abused by the institutions supposedly there to protect their well being and improve their moral and spiritual lives. It's sickening.

It's impossible to know how many of these traumatized boys grow up to positions of power in the same institutions, but without question these men are perpetuating a cycle of abuse and cover up.

And the dark secrets they harbor make them vulnerable to blackmail and kompromat, and in positions of power, make us all vulnerable.

I'm not sure if this thread has a point except to express my sadness and pain that this continues, and my fear that we won't fix it.

I do ask that the next time you hear someone say that white men shouldn't have a voice about rape or abuse - remember that the fxn Boy Scouts and the LDS are putting up hundreds of millions of dollars to cover their crimes - largely against white, male children.

As always and forever the perpetrators if industrial scale sex abuse were also highly likely to have been the victims. And it is up to us - the much larger society - to break that cycle.

In saying this, I do not discount the horrific institutional abuses visited on Native Americans, or those of African descent, or girls and women or anyone. We all suffer abusers, and even those lucky enough to individually escape suffer from the powerful undermining justice.

We - the good and honest and law abiding and loving - are all in this together.

CHEESUS FXN KRIST I just reread the article and the $250,000,000 by the LDS is just for cases before 1976, BECAUSE THEY HAD INSURANCE AFTER THAT.

And yes, I recognize that one possible explanation for the large dollars is the further inherent bias of over-valuing white kid trauma relative to everyone else.