moral panics

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• SOURCE: Made By History at the Washington Post
  3/28/2022
  

  Using "The Children" as an Excuse for Anti-LGBTQ Laws is Nothing New for Florida

  by Julio Capó Jr. and Shevrin Jones

  The 1950s Johns Committee was formed by the state legislature to root out communist subversion in Florida. Not finding any red influence in the NAACP, they turned to scapegoating LGBTQ Floridians. 

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• SOURCE: Mother Jones
  3/28/2022
  

  Hawley's Attacks on KBJ Part of Long History of Politicizing Child Abuse Panics

  Historian Paul Renfro explains the rising fears of child abduction in the 1980s and the way those fears have been used politically. 

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• SOURCE: Texas Tribune
  3/23/2022
  

  Caught on Tape: North Texas School Superintendent Orders Removal of Transgender, LGBTQ Themed Books

  "[Superintendent Jeremy Glenn] noted that members of Granbury’s school board — his bosses — were also very conservative. And to any school employees who might have different political beliefs, Glenn said, 'You better hide it'."

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• SOURCE: Inside Higher Ed
  2/24/2022
  

  Lessons From the Struggle Against the Old McCarthyism

  by Benjamin Mitchell-Yellin

  For a Texas professor, the Lieutenant Governor's push to abolish tenure and punish faculty for teaching certain ideas calls to mind the experiences of his grandparents in the heyday of McCarthy and HUAC. 

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• SOURCE: The Bulwark
  2/25/2021
  

  QAnon and the Satanic Panics of Yesteryear

  by Daniel N. Gullotta

  "The perception of a Christian nation in religious freefall fits almost seamlessly with QAnon’s conviction that the United States is under spiritual assault."

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• SOURCE: Made By History at The Washington Post
  8/27/2020
  

  Qanon Misdirects Our Attention Away From The Real Threats To Children

  by Paul M. Renfro

  "Moral panics like QAnon work to distract from less outrageous, far more insidious sources of harm. Even worse, they contribute to punitive policies that separate and hurt families, perpetuate mass incarceration and keep people in a state of fear."

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• SOURCE: New York TImes
  10-24-13
  

  EC Comics, Vilified in the 1950s, Thrive 60 Years Later

  EC’s glory (and gory) years were 1950-1955.