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Re: Moral Panics

Postby cactuspete » Wed Mar 25, 2020 6:53 am

The Real Reason People Are Buying A Bunch Of Toilet Paper
Moral panics and panic buying are two different things, but they have a lot in common. Central to both are inappropriate responses to real or imagined problems.
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Re: Moral Panics

Postby recluse » Fri May 08, 2020 7:32 pm

Jordan Peterson - Why Some Kids are Awkward
Paranoia is self-defeating behavior. Peterson goes off on various tangents, but it all comes together at the end and a brilliant point is made.
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Re: Moral Panics

Postby shadylady » Wed Jun 17, 2020 9:03 am

Warning: You Are Being Manipulated
Fear is used by the radical leftists to scare people into conforming with their demands. Recognize that they are manipulating you and refuse to be manipulated!
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Re: Moral Panics

Postby tronagirl » Fri Jul 10, 2020 6:28 am

Isn't this anti-racism madness pretty much a moral panic? There is no connection to reality. People are protesting a problem that doesn't even actually exist. Maybe it's not exactly a moral panic, but it is similar in a lot of ways. Every anti-racism person I've seen in videos is a total nutjob. Maybe this anti-racism stuff also qualifies as a conspiracy theory. It's almost like it's both a moral panic and a conspiracy theory at the same time. There's something very strange going on.
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Re: Moral Panics

Postby cloud » Sun Aug 09, 2020 6:54 am

Gutfeld: When will cancel culture end?
Hysteria makes people do strange things. Panic driven by cowardice results in lots of innocent people being hurt. Book burning is a form of moral panic and cancel culture is a form of book burning. People need to wake up and tell the halfwits pushing their dysfunctional ideology on the rest of us to just STFU and to grow up!
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Re: Moral Panics

Postby a2z » Wed Aug 26, 2020 8:12 pm

Cancel Culture Psychopaths
Hyperventilating over racism that doesn't exist? You might be caught up in a moral panic!
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Re: Moral Panics

Postby shadylady » Sun Nov 01, 2020 8:14 am

45 runaway teenagers captured in Ohio and forced to either return to abusive homes or live at oppressive youth detention facility
I changed the headline a little to better reflect reality! :roll2:
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Re: Moral Panics

Postby ergot » Sun Nov 01, 2020 7:51 pm

shadylady: Your headline is a lot more accurate than the one the "news" channel provided. The term "human trafficking" was invented in order to make prostitution sound less like a choice and more like something someone might be forced to do. Essentially it was a rebranding designed to change public perception of a supposed problem. The truth is that lots of kids runaway, but most of them are fifteen and over and of those kids only a small percentage are attractive enough to make money by offering sex. So although they are underage, they aren't actually children. They are teenagers! Just lower the age of consent and the so-called problem evaporates like drops of water on the sidewalk on a hot day.
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Re: Moral Panics

Postby CrustyOldFart » Wed Dec 23, 2020 6:41 am

Moral Panic
The left has been in a moral panic for the last few years. In fact, they still have crazy ideas about what Trump is up to.
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Re: Moral Panics

Postby cloud » Mon Apr 19, 2021 8:21 pm

McMartin Preschool: Anatomy of a Panic | Retro Report | The New York Times
More often than not the real abusers are the people who claim to be "saving" children from abuse!
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