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The Battle Over Censorship Is Not Over By a Long Shot

Hot Air 26 Mar 2025
Advertisement. You would be wrong ... As ESG pressures subside and government edicts discourage pursuing counterproductive policies, a lot of businesses are breathing a sigh of relief and pulling back from the moral panic.  ... .
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'Bad faith attack on universities': Critics slam federal 'antisemitism' probe of UVA, GMU

Progress Index 26 Mar 2025
Sixty U.S ... “So this sort of moral panic around so-called antisemitism in this case is really deceptive, it's untrue, but I think it’s having the effect it's meant to have, which is to cut off any sort of criticisms of Israel,” she said.
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‘This is injustice’: inside Trump’s attack on funding for LGBTQ+ arts

AOL 25 Mar 2025
“This is injustice. We have fought this before and we will fight it again ... Related ... Trump and his far-right allies have made gender, and moral panic about transgender athletes playing women’s sports, a rallying cry in their attacks on “wokeness” ... .
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The cyclical history of abortion rights

New Statesman 24 Mar 2025
Figures are hard to come by, but it is estimated for example that in 1950s America – when the country was undergoing a “moral panic” over abortion, Fissell writes – more than one million abortions were performed each year.
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What Plato can teach Starmer: art is not truth

AOL 23 Mar 2025
They should never have put cameras in the Commons, it only encourages them ... But it’s an easy “mistake-a to make-a” ... Not as dumb propaganda serving the latest moral panic but because it is cleverly, subtly made such as to generate conversation ... .
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Netflix’s Adolescence: What Plato can teach Starmer - art is not truth

The Daily Telegraph 23 Mar 2025
They should never have put cameras in the Commons, it only encourages them ... But it’s an easy “mistake-a to make-a” ... Not as dumb propaganda serving the latest moral panic but because it is cleverly, subtly made such as to generate conversation ... X Icon ... .
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Ravers, Rastas and rugby league stars: why the story of Black British culture is about more than just London

The Observer 23 Mar 2025
As a moral panic about “Black muggers” and Rastafarians spread in 1979, an academic from Jamaica called Stuart Hall turned the lens around on the media, including the BBC, and accused British ...
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Letter to the editor: Group creates ‘moral panic’

Addison County Independent 20 Mar 2025
Public opposition to gender-affirming taking part in a moral panic for significant financial gain ... Al Harder-Hyde ... ....
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Here's how some human rights and LGBTQ+ groups prepared for major foreign aid cuts under Trump

Newsday 20 Mar 2025
The winds were not in our sail, and we saw all around the world a kind of moral panic,” said Hart, executive director of the Global Philanthropy Project, a network of funders for LGBTQ+ people internationally ... Sign up ... AP/Evan Vucci ... 27, 2025 ... Newsday.
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Here’s how some human rights and LGBTQ+ groups prepared for major foreign aid cuts under Trump

Times Union 20 Mar 2025
The winds were not in our sail, and we saw all around the world a kind of moral panic,” said Hart, executive director of the Global Philanthropy Project, a network of funders for LGBTQ+ people internationally ... Funders can be slow to respond to crises.
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Labour says benefit reforms are a ‘moral mission’ – it looks more like moral panic

The Conversation 19 Mar 2025
Moral mission or moral panic?. As my own research shows, when “welfare reform” agendas are couched in the language of “moral missions”, what is really happening is moral panic ... we’ve been watching a government on the brink of losing its moral compass.
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Labour Says Benefit Reforms Are A 'Moral Mission' It Looks More Like Moral Panic

MENA FN 19 Mar 2025
(MENAFN - The Conversation) After weeks of speculation, Liz Kendall, work and pensions secretary, has unveiled her plans to reform welfare and cut the country's ballooning benefits bill. The ... .
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From satanic panic to Duterte worship: How fear shapes collective beliefs

The Philadelphia Inquirer 18 Mar 2025
This so-called satanic backmasking led to a moral panic ... .
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Ban smartphones for UK under-16s, urges Adolescence writer

AOL 18 Mar 2025
Related ... Dr Robert Lawson, an expert on sociolinguistics from Birmingham City University, cautioned of “moral panic” around the use of emojis in teenage online discourse, the vast majority of which were likely to be innocuous, he said ... .
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