re: #174 HappyWarrior

Oh okay. I guess I don’t remember it in the 90’s. I do remember the Harry Potter scares though.

The backmasking scare was during the heyday of the LP. Once LP’s started getting replaced by CD’s, it sorta died off and the wingnuts changed tack.

Then there was of course the whole moral panic over D&D and let’s not forget the whole day care sex-abuse hysteria, another of the well-known moral panics of the 1980s.

These days, it’s Islamophobia. The new and improved moral panic of the 21st Century; a kissing cousin of anti-Semitism, albeit with a different ‘folk devil’ this time around.