“Is this just sensationalism?”
Bingo! It’s just liberal crap. Invented in the minds of liberals with a agenda to find problems that don’t exist.
“It’s just liberal crap. Invented in the minds of liberals with a agenda to find problems that don’t exist.”
Another example of this is the hyperbolic overrepresentation of homosexuality in movies and TV.
Every single TV or movie family, office staff, circle of friends, police squad, - you name it - has at least one token homosexual. Every TV episode or movie plot includes a homosexual element.
If the Hollywood depiction of life in American suburbia were to be taken as a measure of reality, one would think half of us were homosexuals and the other half were considering it as an option.
The constant Hollywood exaggeration of homosexuality can’t be an accident; clearly there is an agenda - I assume it is to promote acceptance of homosexuality by presenting it as if it were the norm.
Among the thousands of people I regularly associate with, yes, there are homosexuals. I’ve never counted them but the overall percentage is very small.
Look, I have no wish to dismiss or downplay the problem of child sex trafficking in America. The problem does exist and, as some have said, even a single child being subjected to this abuse would be tragic.
But there are all sorts of reasons people exaggerate - sensationalism, fund raising, government programs and grants, politics and career enhancement, social engineering, to name a few.
Some exaggerate with the good intention of raising awareness of a righteous cause. I suspect that is the motive here and I sympathize.
But let’s face it; exaggerated claims and bogus “statistics” do not help any cause. In fact, they are more often a turn-off to people like me who care deeply about their fellow man, but just do not respond well to being manipulated.