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Re: Moral Panics

Postby recluse » Wed Apr 01, 2015 7:43 pm

'Mob' Detains, Threatens Photographers Because Single Adults Are Probably All Pedophiles
Even though nearly 90% of abuse is committed by someone the child knows and trusts -- family members and others close to the child, there is still this weird misperception that strangers and single adults are a danger. It's an inaccurate stereotype that flies directly in the face of the actual facts. If more people operated based on reason and logic instead of emotion an paranoid fantasy this world would be a much better place!
But that's where we're at. And these irrational fears are stoked by some of the most trusted members of the community: law enforcement officials, educators and the media. Two of those three directly profit from permanently-heightened fears. The other -- educators -- parrot the skewed information delivered by the other two. The perception becomes the reality. And that "reality" manifests itself as the ugliness detailed above.

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Re: Moral Panics

Postby wildrose » Thu Apr 02, 2015 7:49 am

recluse: As this thread has developed it has become painfully clear that a large portion of society is ruled by emotion and paranoid fantasy, as you say, and not by reason and logic. Additionally, as pointed out in the article, educators should do a better job of promoting thinking skills and combating irrational beliefs which are not supported by actual facts. They need to show more moral courage and resist the tendency to just parrot politically correct beliefs all the time.
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Re: Moral Panics

Postby desertrat » Sat May 02, 2015 8:10 am

Latest Pointless Moral Panic: Minecraft Is Ruining Our Children :smack:
I think there are some people who just automatically go into panic mode any time they are confronted with something they don't understand. Once in panic mode they are incapable of dealing with the issue in a rational manner and all they can do is express outrage and disapproval despite the fact they really don't know what they are talking about, but that doesn't matter because they have a gut feeling about it and you should always trust your gut feelings... right?
Like so many things, actually bothering to understand something before you waste energy fearing it makes all the difference in the world. There are millions of kids for whom Minecraft is opening an entire world of enjoyable problem solving and social interaction, the benefits of which may extend into and across their entire lives. Stagnating this potential with fear because you couldn't be bothered to try and understand what your children are experiencing wastes more than just your time.

LINK: https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20150429/05330930829/latest-pointless-moral-panic-minecraft-is-ruining-our-children.shtml
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Re: Moral Panics

Postby shadylady » Wed Jul 15, 2015 6:38 am

Teacher Who Had Sex With Multiple Students Sentenced
Twenty-two years is harsh beyond the bounds of reason. I agree with Cenk on this one. The lady should lose her job, but there should be no prison time. I also agree that the age of consent should be lowered. Cenk says to 16 years old and I'd go another year and make it 15.
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Re: Moral Panics

Postby recluse » Mon Aug 03, 2015 8:00 am

David Cameron Wants To Shut Down Porn Sites Because Kids Are Clever Enough To Defeat Age Restrictions
How do such complete and utter morons get elected? :wtf:
UK Prime Minister David Cameron has been using "porn" moral panics as a wedge issue to ramp up censorship and control over the internet in the UK. He's been pushing aspects of it for years, including demands for the impossible: filters that block "bad content" but allow "good content." Yes, it does seem bizarre that someone in as powerful a position as David Cameron sees the world in such a black and white way, but remember, this is the same guy who bases his defense of more spying powers on what happens in fictional TV crime dramas.

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Re: Moral Panics

Postby shadylady » Tue Aug 04, 2015 7:59 am

Subway’s Jared Fogle Bought A Teenager Off Craigslist
This has got to be one of the most repulsively unintelligent discussions I've ever heard and I've heard plenty. Apparently TYT viewers agree. As of this time the thumbs down votes have a substantial lead over the thumbs up votes. I'm not going to list all the stupid things said in this video or point out all the logical and factual errors. There are just too many of them! But the stupidity definitely begins with the misleading title. The fact is that Jared had sex with a 16-year-old in a state where the age of consent is sixteen. He paid her for having sex with him and so since he's in a state where prostitution is illegal, he did break that law. However, the problem here isn't with Jared's behavior, but with the archaic law. Prostitution should be legal and so in my mind Jared did nothing actually wrong. This doesn't stop the TYT airheads from obsessing over what a terrible person Jared is, which is incredibly hypocritical since they gave a pass to a woman teacher who had sex with underage students just a couple weeks ago.

I put this in the Moral Panics rather than the Sexual Grievance Industry thread since this clip does a great job of demonstrating the kind of befuddled thought patterns which people caught up in a moral panic exhibit. You see the guy who just keeps spouting social justice warrior cliches (despite the fact that they don't apply in this situation at all) and the women who are so emotional about this particular situation because it involves a man as the alleged perpetrator that they forget that they had the complete opposite reaction to a similar situation involving a woman as the perpetrator only a short time ago.
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Re: Moral Panics

Postby wildrose » Sat Oct 03, 2015 7:37 am

Lakeside man angry over water district's camera
This guy has two complaints about a camera aimed so that it possibly records activity in his backyard:
1) The camera is invading his privacy
2) The camera might film child porn (because his niece sometimes takes off her clothes while swimming in kiddy pool)

I agree with him on the first complaint since he is being singled out (perhaps unintentionally) and this causes his activity to be potentially monitored in a way which citizens are not normally subject to.

However, on the second point, I completely disagree. In fact, he uses moral panic type thinking in his complaint. The plain and simple fact is that any video of his naked niece playing in the kiddy pool does not in any way constitute child pornography. She would have to be performing sexual acts for such video to cross into that territory. Hopefully his niece is not engaging in such behavior out in the open in the backyard for any passerby to see.
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Re: Moral Panics

Postby shadylady » Mon Nov 09, 2015 7:21 am

wildrose: I completely agree with your assessment of the situation. The simple fact is that any pictures taken at the distance between the patio and pole the camera was on outside the back fence would simply be images of a nude girl playing in a kiddy pool. Most likely the image quality would be very poor. So, all we would have would be low quality nudes. It wouldn't even qualify as erotica (totally legal), let alone porn (not legal).
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Re: Moral Panics

Postby CactusHugger » Sat Dec 12, 2015 9:08 am

K-pop Band detained at LAX on Suspicion of Being Sex Workers :roll2:
I checked out a bunch of Korean pop band videos and they are nowhere near as kinky as your typical Miley Cyrus or Ariana Grande video. In fact, almost all of them look older than Ariana Grande. On top of that I've seen way sexier uniforms on high school cheerleaders and I've seen way more suggestive cheer-leading routines and so it seems like there's an awful lot of obsession going on here over nothing, which is exactly why I posted this to the moral panics thread! (Well, that along with the current hysteria over ridiculously exaggerated claims about sex workers that have been the most popular sex-related news stories lately.)
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Re: Moral Panics

Postby wildrose » Fri Dec 18, 2015 6:51 pm

Photo Of Olivia Wilde’s Naked Toddler Creates Uproar Online
About half way through this news clip Ana Kasparian produces a rather passionate rant about how we've given up our rights because of terrorists and perverts. The discussion isn't that great towards the end when Cenk gets carried away with the topic of masturbation, but up until that point the video is worth watching.
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