Moral Panic

What are you afraid of?
What makes you think a scapegoat is really going to help?
This isn’t the age of sympathetic magic, so,
What is your excuse?
These things never turn out well.
Do you remember the Satanic panic of the 1980s?
I sure do, and guess what?
It was all bullshit.
Someone was just stoking a panic
To manipulate and control you.
Lots of people gave in an let them do it.
Surely, you’ve heard of the Red Scare?
Yep, and what happened except that a lot of people got hurt?
Careers and lives ruined, and for what?
There were no communists taking over the government.
It’s the same bullshit today.
Banning drag shows, why?
It was okay for Patrick Swayze in the 1990s,
So why the sudden freak out?
Women’s sports have long been dominated by the gender police,
An ongoing moral panic even for biological women, but now,
Are you so obsessed with your fears that you are okay
With your daughter having her genitalia inspected just to play sports?
Because that is where the law is going right now.
Moral panics are about someone taking control of you,
To manipulate you to their own ends.
Break free. Don’t believe people when they tell you to freak out.
Get some facts and ask yourself—
When will they come for me?