myrmepropagandist on Nostr: In hindsight moral panics always seem deeply silly, you have to wonder how anyone ...

In hindsight moral panics always seem deeply silly, you have to wonder how anyone fell for such nonsense.

Media plays a role in allowing panics to happen either by uncritically repeating the claims of the morally panicked, or by presenting those claims as a question. I remember local news segments that wondered if maybe there really were "demonic messages" encoded in records played backwards. If D&D clubs maybe really were Satan worship.

And this is still occurring in right wing media. 2/