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[2] [8] It is often academically considered irrational (see Cohen's model of moral panic, below). Examples of moral panic include the belief in widespread abduction of children by predatory pedophiles; [9] [10] [11] belief in ritual abuse of women and children by Satanic cults; [12] and concerns over the effects of music lyrics. [13]
List of moral panics. This is a list of events that fit the sociological definition of a moral panic. In sociology, a moral panic is a period of increased and widespread societal concern over some group or issue, in which the public reaction to such group or issue is disproportional to its actual threat. The concern is further fueled by mass ...
America's Dumbest Moral Panic Is Finally Over. When they needed her most, presidential candidate Kamala Harris wanted to ban plastic straws. Now that the mania about banning plastic straws has ...
The 2020s anti-LGBTQ movement in the United States is an ongoing political backlash from social conservatives against LGBTQ people.It has included legislative proposals of bathroom use restrictions, bans on gender-affirming care, anti-LGBTQ curriculum laws, laws against drag performances, book bans, boycotts, and conspiracy theories around grooming. [1]
In Afghanistan, some ugly aspects of the local culture and the brutality of the Taliban rubbed American sensibilities raw, setting the stage for deeper moral injury among Marines like Nick Rudolph. U.S. military soldiers tend to a local Afghan man, who was shot after being suspected of planting an IED roadside bomb in Genrandai village in ...
Appearance. Day-care sex-abuse hysteria was a moral panic that occurred primarily during the 1980s and early 1990s, and featured charges against day-care providers accused of committing several forms of child abuse, including Satanic ritual abuse. [ 1 ][ 2 ] The collective cases are often considered a part of the Satanic panic.
e. The Lavender Scare was a moral panic about homosexual people in the United States government which led to their mass dismissal from government service during the mid-20th century. It contributed to and paralleled the anti-communist campaign which is known as McCarthyism and the Second Red Scare. [1] Gay men and lesbians were said to be ...
Drag panic. Barbada de Barbades reading books to children at the Bibliothèque et Archives nationales du Québec in 2018. Drag panic (also called drag queen panic or anti-drag hysteria) is a moral panic that stems from the belief that exposure to drag, especially for minors, can be harmful, due to its perceived sexual nature. [1][2][3] Drag ...