![]() Those agents were assigned the task of enforcing the White Slave Traffic Act, and they decided to call themselves the Bureau of Investigation. Two years earlier, Teddy Roosevelt had deputized a few dozen former secret service officers as “special agents” of the Department of Justice. To enforce the Mann Act, the federal government needed cops. Better known today as the Mann Act, it banned the transportation of any girl or woman across state lines for any ‘immoral’ purpose. Whipped into a frenzy, they demanded that the government save the children, and the book’s authors helped write and pass the White Slave Traffic Act of 1910. Trafficking exposés like “War on the White Slave Trade” provided the public with the perfect outlet for their fear and rage. And most shocking of all, some of these newly liberated white women were choosing to date black men. Women, unaccompanied by men, going to dance halls and ice cream parlors, was simply beyond the pale. For some, the simple sight of women walking alone in the city was a shocking affront. The typewriter - and the income that came with it - started to affect the role of women in economic and social life.Īs you can imagine, not everyone was thrilled with that development. Pretty soon there were at least 60,000 women working as typists that number kept climbing. In 1881, the YWCA in New York started offering typing classes to women. The panic set off by that book had been building for a decade or more. The conspiracy was vast, and for the “safety and purity of womanhood,” federal laws were needed. The book, which was the collective work of Chicago clergy and prosecutors, warned that: “Ice cream parlors of the city and fruit stores combined, largely run by foreigners, are the places where scores of girls have taken their first step downward.” The result, the authors said, was: “The blackest slavery that has ever stained the human race.” White parents across the country were warned that their girls were being snatched off the street and sold into sex slavery. It sparked a moral panic that would reshape the country. A few months later, a best-selling book, called “War on the White Slave Trade,” became a national phenomenon. In the fall of 1909, one of the nation’s most widely read magazines, Woman’s World, delivered a shocking exposé to more than two million doorsteps around the country. So today on the show: What is QAnon, where did it come from, and is it the future of the Republican party? Because as it turns out, panics about satanic child abuse are not a new phenomenon in America. RG: That’s my first guest today, Daily Beast politics reporter Will Sommer, who has been reporting for the last few years on the bizarre, and increasingly popular conspiracy theory, known as QAnon.Īfter that, we’ll check in with Intercept politics reporter Aída Chávez, who’s noticed her own friends and acquaintances drifting toward Q in recent months.īut first, we’re going to go back in time a bit. WS: They believe that Trump will basically arrest all of his foes, like Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton, and, you know, either ship them to Guantanamo Bay or just execute them outright. A growing number of Republican voters - and even some politicians - have gone completely nuts. RG: Behind the carefully-crafted scenes though, a different story has been playing out among the Republican base. Trump: He is the destroyer of America’s jobs, and, if given the chance, he will be the destroyer of American greatness. This week at the RNC, Republicans continued with that theme, promising renewed American greatness with the re-election of Donald Trump, and warning of a nightmare of darkness if the country falls into the hands of Joe Biden. Ryan Grim: Welcome to Deconstructed, I’m Ryan Grim, DC bureau chief for The Intercept, filling in this week for Mehdi.Īt the DNC, Democrats laid out the choice in the upcoming election as one between light and darkness. When that doesn’t happen, I think they’re gonna go, like, “Holy smokes, maybe I have to take action myself.” William Sommer: QAnon could potentially become more dangerous if Trump loses, because these are people who have become convinced that Trump is gonna solve all their problems. Guest host Ryan Grim talks to Intercept reporter Aída Chávez and the Daily Beast’s Will Sommer about the future of QAnon. Despite its self-evident implausibility, the mantle of QAnon has been taken up by a huge number of mostly right-wing Americans, including a shocking number of Republican politicians. government has been using internet forums to send coded messages to the American public about a secret plan to arrest and/or execute a global cabal of child-torturing, blood-drinking, Satan-worshipping pedophiles. QAnon is a far-ranging conspiracy theory that alleges, among other things, that a patriotic Trump supporter (or supporters) embedded in the highest levels of the U.S.
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