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	*'''2020s''' - Attention is given by liberals to the "disturbing" rise of pedophile hunting as entertainment on a commercial scale via social media influencers, with levels of violence way beyond that condoned by network pioneers such as Chris Hansen, associated with ''[[To Catch a Predator]]''. The New York Times carries out an investigation<ref>[https://web.archive.org/web/20250327140547/https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2025/03/26/us/pedophile-hunting-violence.html Online ‘Pedophile Hunters’ Are Growing More Violent — and Going Viral - NYT]</ref> into the activities of these many groups, after some were not correctly prosecuted. Influencers intersect tellingly with right-wing conspiracy theorists heavily invested in the normalisation/grooming narratives. Many of these vigilantes and conspiracy theorists [[Anti\|go on to be convicted]] for sex crimes involving children. By 2025, Trump himself is dragged into the Epstein saga, floated for so long by his followers, and has to downplay its importance.		*'''2020s''' - Attention is given by liberals to the "disturbing" rise of pedophile hunting as entertainment on a commercial scale via social media influencers, with levels of violence way beyond that condoned by network pioneers such as Chris Hansen, associated with ''[[To Catch a Predator]]''. The New York Times carries out an investigation<ref>[https://web.archive.org/web/20250327140547/https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2025/03/26/us/pedophile-hunting-violence.html Online ‘Pedophile Hunters’ Are Growing More Violent — and Going Viral - NYT]</ref> into the activities of these many groups, after some were not correctly prosecuted. Influencers intersect tellingly with right-wing conspiracy theorists heavily invested in the normalisation/grooming narratives. Many of these vigilantes and conspiracy theorists [[Anti\|go on to be convicted]] for sex crimes involving children. By 2025, Trump himself is dragged into the Epstein saga, floated for so long by his followers, and has to downplay its importance.

	*'''Going forward''' - The stages of moral panic summarized in the graphic on the right are an expansive analogy for how people come to terms with social "issues" in general. At the start, we are told "this is the issue" - the problem is ''identified'' and acknowledged. In the middle, we are told ~~"these are~~ the ~~''others'' who are to blame~~ (''pathologization'') and ~~moreover,~~ such people are not of one single type and are among us" (''problematization''). At the end, the problem becomes so widely manifest, that we have to accept it as part of us. This is ''normalization''.		*'''Going forward''' - The stages of moral panic summarized in the graphic on the right are an expansive analogy for how people come to terms with social "issues" in general. At the start, we are told "this is the issue" - the problem is ''identified'' and acknowledged. In the middle, we are told why we urgently have to act and who is the scapegoat (''pathologization''). Then within decades, the discourse evolves, and we learn that such people are not of one single type, and are "among us" (''problematization''). At the end, the problem becomes so widely manifest, that we have to accept it as part of us. This is ''normalization''. A later, fifth-phase might then be described as "ascendancy", following on from the rotating panics. Here, the formerly ostracized groups are gentrified, and begin to win social recognition as well as further legal reforms.

	==Quotes on moral panic==		==Quotes on moral panic==

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	:''For consequences of moral panic over "sexual offending", see [[Special Article: Adverse effects of hysteria\|Adverse effects of hysteria]].''		:''For consequences of moral panic over "sexual offending", see [[Special Article: Adverse effects of hysteria\|Adverse effects of hysteria]].''

	''Moral panic''' refers to a phenomenon in which mainstream society experiences large amounts of fear and uncertainty fuelled by the perception that a particular moral institution (such as [[Childhood Innocence\|childhood innocence]]) or group of people (such as [[child]]ren or [[Adolescence\|adolescents]]) are under threat. The perceived threat often comes in the form of a socially excluded, alien group of people ([[pedophile]]s or sex offenders) and the ideologies and real life events attributed to them. Necessary to the incitement of moral panic is the persistant exchange of [[misinformation]], by the media for example.		'''Moral panic''' refers to a phenomenon in which mainstream society experiences large amounts of fear and uncertainty fuelled by the perception that a particular moral institution (such as [[Childhood Innocence\|childhood innocence]]) or group of people (such as [[child]]ren or [[Adolescence\|adolescents]]) are under threat. The perceived threat often comes in the form of a socially excluded, alien group of people ([[pedophile]]s or sex offenders) and the ideologies and real life events attributed to them. Necessary to the incitement of moral panic is the persistant exchange of [[misinformation]], by the media for example.

	The concept is often used in the British sociological sense to refer to shorter-term events<ref>[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moral_panic Wikipedia - Moral Panic]</ref>, such as groups of hooligans or mods supposedly inciting flash panics in society, and the resulting authoritarian crackdowns. This (while it was the original usage, by Stanley Cohen), is a highly questionable phenomenon, since it usually relies on [[moral enterprise]] and media/institutional involvement to manufacture consent to "moral panics". Academics such as [[Bill Thompson]] describe the British theory of Moral Panic as a bourgeoise construct of middle-class sociologists who themselves partake in this manufacturing of panic and benefit from it.		The concept is often used in the British sociological sense to refer to shorter-term events<ref>[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moral_panic Wikipedia - Moral Panic]</ref>, such as groups of hooligans or mods supposedly inciting flash panics in society, and the resulting authoritarian crackdowns. This (while it was the original usage, by Stanley Cohen), is a highly questionable phenomenon, since it usually relies on [[moral enterprise]] and media/institutional involvement to manufacture consent to "moral panics". Academics such as [[Bill Thompson]] describe the British theory of Moral Panic as a bourgeoise construct of middle-class sociologists who themselves partake in this manufacturing of panic and benefit from it.

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	[[File:Robinlloyd.jpg\|thumb\|Robin Lloyd's 1978 expose of American Boy Prostitution]]		[[File:Robinlloyd.jpg\|thumb\|Robin Lloyd's 1978 expose of American Boy Prostitution]]
	*'''April 1971''' – Florence Rush presents her ground-breaking: “The Sexual Abuse of Children: A Feminist Point of View” about childhood sexual abuse and incest, at the New York Radical Feminists Rape Conference. Focus is on sexual violence against female children within the family, seen as a pervasive, if not universal factor in socializing females to accept subservient & submissive role in society. Sexual violence is reframed as an inherently political, women’s issue.		*'''April 1971''' – Florence Rush presents her ground-breaking: “The Sexual Abuse of Children: A Feminist Point of View” about childhood sexual abuse and incest, at the New York Radical Feminists Rape Conference. Focus is on sexual violence against female children within the family, seen as a pervasive, if not universal factor in socializing females to accept subservient & submissive role in society. Sexual violence is reframed as an inherently political, women’s issue.

			*'''1973''' - [[Wikipedia:Sybil (Schreiber book)\|''Sybil'']] (1973) by Flora Rheta Schreiber told the “true story” of a woman suffering from multiple personality disorder (now known as dissociative identity disorder) and the psychoanalyst, Cornelia B. Wilbur, who “cures” her. It is now widely derided as deceptive and sensational, but was a bestseller and arguably pivotal in initiating the panics that were to come.

	*'''1973''' – Revelations that dozens of teenage boys had been tortured, raped, murdered and secretly buried by serial killer Dean Corll. Rumors that the boys had been involved in prostitution and/or pornography are encouraged by Police leadership, blaming victim “lifestyle” for the tragedy to offset parent’s revelations that police had refused to investigate the disappearance of the early victims. No verification of lifestyle claims from any family members or friends of the deceased. Boy prostitution and pornography operations are later uncovered in California, the [[Lyric International\|DOM-LYRIC]] case (police attempt to link it to the previous case). In Houston, the Roy Ames case, 1973-75, again unrelated. In '''1974''', The Child Abuse Prevention and Treatment Act (CAPTA) passed in the U.S.		*'''1973''' – Revelations that dozens of teenage boys had been tortured, raped, murdered and secretly buried by serial killer Dean Corll. Rumors that the boys had been involved in prostitution and/or pornography are encouraged by Police leadership, blaming victim “lifestyle” for the tragedy to offset parent’s revelations that police had refused to investigate the disappearance of the early victims. No verification of lifestyle claims from any family members or friends of the deceased. Boy prostitution and pornography operations are later uncovered in California, the [[Lyric International\|DOM-LYRIC]] case (police attempt to link it to the previous case). In Houston, the Roy Ames case, 1973-75, again unrelated. In '''1974''', The Child Abuse Prevention and Treatment Act (CAPTA) passed in the U.S.

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	*Catherine Lee. (2023). [https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/pdf/10.1177/08920206211016453 Inclusive relationships, sex and health education: Why the moral panic?], ''Management in Education'', Vol. 37(2) 107–112.		*Catherine Lee. (2023). [https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/pdf/10.1177/08920206211016453 Inclusive relationships, sex and health education: Why the moral panic?], ''Management in Education'', Vol. 37(2) 107–112.
	*Tig Slater. (2024). [https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/pdf/10.1177/00380261231167747 Mundanity, fascination and threat: Interrogating responses to publicly engaged research in toilet, trans and disability studies amid a ‘culture war’], ''The Sociological Review'', Vol. 72(3), 511–528.		*Tig Slater. (2024). [https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/pdf/10.1177/00380261231167747 Mundanity, fascination and threat: Interrogating responses to publicly engaged research in toilet, trans and disability studies amid a ‘culture war’], ''The Sociological Review'', Vol. 72(3), 511–528.
			* [[Monstrous Crimes and the Failure of Forensic Psychiatry]] - a 2013 non-fiction book by [[John Douard]] and [[Pamela Schultz\|Pamela D. Schultz]]
			* [[Moral Panics over Contemporary Children and Youth]] (ed. Charles Krinsky, 2016)
			* [https://annas-archive.org/md5/1d428c2369c13437c7ced5ccaba40a41 The Ashgate Research Companion to Moral Panics] (edited by Charles Krinsky, 2013)- a comprehensive assemblage of cutting-edge critical and theoretical perspectives on the concept of moral panic.

	==References==		==References==

	[[Category:Official Encyclopedia]][[Category:Gay]][[Category:Child Advocacy]][[Category:Prostitution]][[Category:Sociological Theory]][[Category:Child Pornography]][[Category:Anti-Pedophile culture]][[Category:Hysteria]][[Category:Religion]][[Category:TV & Media]][[Category:Terminology]][[Category:Terminology: Academic]][[Category:Terminology: Popular]][[Category:History & Events]][[Category:History & Events: British]][[Category:History & Events: American]][[Category:History & Events: International]][[Category:History & Events: 1950s]][[Category:History & Events: 1950s]][[Category:History & Events: 1960s]][[Category:History & Events: 1970s]][[Category:History & Events: 1980s]][[Category:History & Events: 1990s]][[Category:History & Events: 2000s]][[Category:History & Events: 2010s]][[Category:History & Events: 2020s]][[Category:History & Events: Real Crime]][[Category:Law/Crime: Corruption]]		[[Category:Official Encyclopedia]][[Category:Gay]][[Category:Child Advocacy]][[Category:Prostitution]][[Category:Sociological Theory]][[Category:Child Pornography]][[Category:Anti-Pedophile culture]][[Category:Hysteria]][[Category:Religion]][[Category:TV & Media]][[Category:Terminology]][[Category:Terminology: Academic]][[Category:Terminology: Popular]][[Category:History & Events]][[Category:History & Events: British]][[Category:History & Events: American]][[Category:History & Events: International]][[Category:History & Events: 1950s]][[Category:History & Events: 1950s]][[Category:History & Events: 1960s]][[Category:History & Events: 1970s]][[Category:History & Events: 1980s]][[Category:History & Events: 1990s]][[Category:History & Events: 2000s]][[Category:History & Events: 2010s]][[Category:History & Events: 2020s]][[Category:History & Events: Real Crime]][[Category:Law/Crime: Corruption]]

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	* Arnold Hunt (1997) [https://web.archive.org/web/20130420132144/http://snifferdogonline.com/reports/Child%20Abuse,%20Sexuality%20and%20Violence/'Moral%20Panic'%20and%20Moral%20Language%20in%20the%20Media.pdf 'Moral Panic' and Moral Language in the Media] ''The British Journal of Sociology'', Vol. 48, No. 4, pp. 629-648 - This article surveys the evolution and changing meanings of the term 'moral panic' from its inception in 1972 to the present.		* Arnold Hunt (1997) [https://web.archive.org/web/20130420132144/http://snifferdogonline.com/reports/Child%20Abuse,%20Sexuality%20and%20Violence/'Moral%20Panic'%20and%20Moral%20Language%20in%20the%20Media.pdf 'Moral Panic' and Moral Language in the Media] ''The British Journal of Sociology'', Vol. 48, No. 4, pp. 629-648 - This article surveys the evolution and changing meanings of the term 'moral panic' from its inception in 1972 to the present.
	*Danielle Egan and Gail Hawkes, [https://sci-hub.se/10.1080/09540253.2012.666232 "Sexuality, youth and the perils of endangered innocence: how history can help us get past the panic"], in ''Gender and Education'', 24(3) (2012), 269–284.		*Danielle Egan and Gail Hawkes, [https://sci-hub.se/10.1080/09540253.2012.666232 "Sexuality, youth and the perils of endangered innocence: how history can help us get past the panic"], in ''Gender and Education'', 24(3) (2012), 269–284.
			*Jay Daniel Thompson. (2019). [https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/14681811.2018.1475284 Predatory schools and student non-lives: A discourse analysis of the Safe Schools Coalition Australia controversy], ''Sex Education'', Volume 19; Issue 1, pp. 41-53.
	*Catherine Lee. (2023). [https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/pdf/10.1177/08920206211016453 Inclusive relationships, sex and health education: Why the moral panic?], ''Management in Education'', Vol. 37(2) 107–112.		*Catherine Lee. (2023). [https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/pdf/10.1177/08920206211016453 Inclusive relationships, sex and health education: Why the moral panic?], ''Management in Education'', Vol. 37(2) 107–112.
	*Tig Slater. (2024). [https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/pdf/10.1177/00380261231167747 Mundanity, fascination and threat: Interrogating responses to publicly engaged research in toilet, trans and disability studies amid a ‘culture war’], ''The Sociological Review'', Vol. 72(3), 511–528.		*Tig Slater. (2024). [https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/pdf/10.1177/00380261231167747 Mundanity, fascination and threat: Interrogating responses to publicly engaged research in toilet, trans and disability studies amid a ‘culture war’], ''The Sociological Review'', Vol. 72(3), 511–528.

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	* [[Sex Panic and the Punitive State]] by Roger N. Lancaster, 2011		* [[Sex Panic and the Punitive State]] by Roger N. Lancaster, 2011
	* Arnold Hunt (1997) [https://web.archive.org/web/20130420132144/http://snifferdogonline.com/reports/Child%20Abuse,%20Sexuality%20and%20Violence/'Moral%20Panic'%20and%20Moral%20Language%20in%20the%20Media.pdf 'Moral Panic' and Moral Language in the Media] ''The British Journal of Sociology'', Vol. 48, No. 4, pp. 629-648 - This article surveys the evolution and changing meanings of the term 'moral panic' from its inception in 1972 to the present.		* Arnold Hunt (1997) [https://web.archive.org/web/20130420132144/http://snifferdogonline.com/reports/Child%20Abuse,%20Sexuality%20and%20Violence/'Moral%20Panic'%20and%20Moral%20Language%20in%20the%20Media.pdf 'Moral Panic' and Moral Language in the Media] ''The British Journal of Sociology'', Vol. 48, No. 4, pp. 629-648 - This article surveys the evolution and changing meanings of the term 'moral panic' from its inception in 1972 to the present.
			*Danielle Egan and Gail Hawkes, [https://sci-hub.se/10.1080/09540253.2012.666232 "Sexuality, youth and the perils of endangered innocence: how history can help us get past the panic"], in ''Gender and Education'', 24(3) (2012), 269–284.
	*Catherine Lee. (2023). [https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/pdf/10.1177/08920206211016453 Inclusive relationships, sex and health education: Why the moral panic?], ''Management in Education'', Vol. 37(2) 107–112.		*Catherine Lee. (2023). [https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/pdf/10.1177/08920206211016453 Inclusive relationships, sex and health education: Why the moral panic?], ''Management in Education'', Vol. 37(2) 107–112.
	*Tig Slater. (2024). [https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/pdf/10.1177/00380261231167747 Mundanity, fascination and threat: Interrogating responses to publicly engaged research in toilet, trans and disability studies amid a ‘culture war’], ''The Sociological Review'', Vol. 72(3), 511–528.		*Tig Slater. (2024). [https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/pdf/10.1177/00380261231167747 Mundanity, fascination and threat: Interrogating responses to publicly engaged research in toilet, trans and disability studies amid a ‘culture war’], ''The Sociological Review'', Vol. 72(3), 511–528.

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	* Arnold Hunt (1997) [https://web.archive.org/web/20130420132144/http://snifferdogonline.com/reports/Child%20Abuse,%20Sexuality%20and%20Violence/'Moral%20Panic'%20and%20Moral%20Language%20in%20the%20Media.pdf 'Moral Panic' and Moral Language in the Media] ''The British Journal of Sociology'', Vol. 48, No. 4, pp. 629-648 - This article surveys the evolution and changing meanings of the term 'moral panic' from its inception in 1972 to the present.		* Arnold Hunt (1997) [https://web.archive.org/web/20130420132144/http://snifferdogonline.com/reports/Child%20Abuse,%20Sexuality%20and%20Violence/'Moral%20Panic'%20and%20Moral%20Language%20in%20the%20Media.pdf 'Moral Panic' and Moral Language in the Media] ''The British Journal of Sociology'', Vol. 48, No. 4, pp. 629-648 - This article surveys the evolution and changing meanings of the term 'moral panic' from its inception in 1972 to the present.
	*Catherine Lee. (2023). [https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/pdf/10.1177/08920206211016453 Inclusive relationships, sex and health education: Why the moral panic?], ''Management in Education'', Vol. 37(2) 107–112.		*Catherine Lee. (2023). [https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/pdf/10.1177/08920206211016453 Inclusive relationships, sex and health education: Why the moral panic?], ''Management in Education'', Vol. 37(2) 107–112.
			*Tig Slater. (2024). [https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/pdf/10.1177/00380261231167747 Mundanity, fascination and threat: Interrogating responses to publicly engaged research in toilet, trans and disability studies amid a ‘culture war’], ''The Sociological Review'', Vol. 72(3), 511–528.

	==References==		==References==

	[[Category:Official Encyclopedia]][[Category:Gay]][[Category:Child Advocacy]][[Category:Prostitution]][[Category:Sociological Theory]][[Category:Child Pornography]][[Category:Anti-Pedophile culture]][[Category:Hysteria]][[Category:Religion]][[Category:TV & Media]][[Category:Terminology]][[Category:Terminology: Academic]][[Category:Terminology: Popular]][[Category:History & Events]][[Category:History & Events: British]][[Category:History & Events: American]][[Category:History & Events: International]][[Category:History & Events: 1950s]][[Category:History & Events: 1950s]][[Category:History & Events: 1960s]][[Category:History & Events: 1970s]][[Category:History & Events: 1980s]][[Category:History & Events: 1990s]][[Category:History & Events: 2000s]][[Category:History & Events: 2010s]][[Category:History & Events: 2020s]][[Category:History & Events: Real Crime]][[Category:Law/Crime: Corruption]]		[[Category:Official Encyclopedia]][[Category:Gay]][[Category:Child Advocacy]][[Category:Prostitution]][[Category:Sociological Theory]][[Category:Child Pornography]][[Category:Anti-Pedophile culture]][[Category:Hysteria]][[Category:Religion]][[Category:TV & Media]][[Category:Terminology]][[Category:Terminology: Academic]][[Category:Terminology: Popular]][[Category:History & Events]][[Category:History & Events: British]][[Category:History & Events: American]][[Category:History & Events: International]][[Category:History & Events: 1950s]][[Category:History & Events: 1950s]][[Category:History & Events: 1960s]][[Category:History & Events: 1970s]][[Category:History & Events: 1980s]][[Category:History & Events: 1990s]][[Category:History & Events: 2000s]][[Category:History & Events: 2010s]][[Category:History & Events: 2020s]][[Category:History & Events: Real Crime]][[Category:Law/Crime: Corruption]]

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	* [[Sex Panic and the Punitive State]] by Roger N. Lancaster, 2011		* [[Sex Panic and the Punitive State]] by Roger N. Lancaster, 2011
	* Arnold Hunt (1997) [https://web.archive.org/web/20130420132144/http://snifferdogonline.com/reports/Child%20Abuse,%20Sexuality%20and%20Violence/'Moral%20Panic'%20and%20Moral%20Language%20in%20the%20Media.pdf 'Moral Panic' and Moral Language in the Media] ''The British Journal of Sociology'', Vol. 48, No. 4, pp. 629-648 - This article surveys the evolution and changing meanings of the term 'moral panic' from its inception in 1972 to the present.		* Arnold Hunt (1997) [https://web.archive.org/web/20130420132144/http://snifferdogonline.com/reports/Child%20Abuse,%20Sexuality%20and%20Violence/'Moral%20Panic'%20and%20Moral%20Language%20in%20the%20Media.pdf 'Moral Panic' and Moral Language in the Media] ''The British Journal of Sociology'', Vol. 48, No. 4, pp. 629-648 - This article surveys the evolution and changing meanings of the term 'moral panic' from its inception in 1972 to the present.
			*Catherine Lee. (2023). [https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/pdf/10.1177/08920206211016453 Inclusive relationships, sex and health education: Why the moral panic?], ''Management in Education'', Vol. 37(2) 107–112.

	==References==		==References==

	[[Category:Official Encyclopedia]][[Category:Gay]][[Category:Child Advocacy]][[Category:Prostitution]][[Category:Sociological Theory]][[Category:Child Pornography]][[Category:Anti-Pedophile culture]][[Category:Hysteria]][[Category:Religion]][[Category:TV & Media]][[Category:Terminology]][[Category:Terminology: Academic]][[Category:Terminology: Popular]][[Category:History & Events]][[Category:History & Events: British]][[Category:History & Events: American]][[Category:History & Events: International]][[Category:History & Events: 1950s]][[Category:History & Events: 1950s]][[Category:History & Events: 1960s]][[Category:History & Events: 1970s]][[Category:History & Events: 1980s]][[Category:History & Events: 1990s]][[Category:History & Events: 2000s]][[Category:History & Events: 2010s]][[Category:History & Events: 2020s]][[Category:History & Events: Real Crime]][[Category:Law/Crime: Corruption]]		[[Category:Official Encyclopedia]][[Category:Gay]][[Category:Child Advocacy]][[Category:Prostitution]][[Category:Sociological Theory]][[Category:Child Pornography]][[Category:Anti-Pedophile culture]][[Category:Hysteria]][[Category:Religion]][[Category:TV & Media]][[Category:Terminology]][[Category:Terminology: Academic]][[Category:Terminology: Popular]][[Category:History & Events]][[Category:History & Events: British]][[Category:History & Events: American]][[Category:History & Events: International]][[Category:History & Events: 1950s]][[Category:History & Events: 1950s]][[Category:History & Events: 1960s]][[Category:History & Events: 1970s]][[Category:History & Events: 1980s]][[Category:History & Events: 1990s]][[Category:History & Events: 2000s]][[Category:History & Events: 2010s]][[Category:History & Events: 2020s]][[Category:History & Events: Real Crime]][[Category:Law/Crime: Corruption]]

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	*'''2016-present''' - Pedophile panic re-emerges in the conspiracy-fuelled culture wars of the Trump era. [[Wikipedia:QAnon\|Q-Anon]] and [[Wikipedia:Pizzagate conspiracy theory\|Pizzagate]] make bizarre claims of coded pedophile language and elite pedophilia running all the way to the very top of society. [[Wikipedia:Jeffrey Epstein\|Jeffrey Epstein]] is seemingly the poster-boy for this brand of elite debauchery. In 2018, a new wave of social media hysteria focusing on the "normalization of pedophilia" begins with the founding of [[Prostasia Foundation]]. Various controversies in academia follow, FOX News and the right wing media/influencers start identifying liberal trends in education and [[Transgender youth and attraction to minors\|trans-inclusivity]], accusing Disney among others of "[[grooming]]" children for [[degeneracy]]. In particular, we counted at least 14 [[MAPocalypse\|such controversies]] in 2021 and 2022, including Noah Berlatsky ([[Prostasia Foundation\|Prostasia]]), [[San Francisco Gay Men's Chorus\|SFGMC]], [[Allyn Walker]], [[Karl Andersson]], Miranda Galbreath, [[Minor Attracted Person\|Amber Parker/Franklin High School]], [[Jacob Breslow]], and Police Scotland/European Union<ref>[https://www.scottishdailyexpress.co.uk/news/world-news/minor-attracted-person-scandal-inside-28858264 Scottish Daily Express scandal re. EU, Police Scotland using "Minor Attracted Person"]</ref>.		*'''2016-present''' - Pedophile panic re-emerges in the conspiracy-fuelled culture wars of the Trump era. [[Wikipedia:QAnon\|Q-Anon]] and [[Wikipedia:Pizzagate conspiracy theory\|Pizzagate]] make bizarre claims of coded pedophile language and elite pedophilia running all the way to the very top of society. [[Wikipedia:Jeffrey Epstein\|Jeffrey Epstein]] is seemingly the poster-boy for this brand of elite debauchery. In 2018, a new wave of social media hysteria focusing on the "normalization of pedophilia" begins with the founding of [[Prostasia Foundation]]. Various controversies in academia follow, FOX News and the right wing media/influencers start identifying liberal trends in education and [[Transgender youth and attraction to minors\|trans-inclusivity]], accusing Disney among others of "[[grooming]]" children for [[degeneracy]]. In particular, we counted at least 14 [[MAPocalypse\|such controversies]] in 2021 and 2022, including Noah Berlatsky ([[Prostasia Foundation\|Prostasia]]), [[San Francisco Gay Men's Chorus\|SFGMC]], [[Allyn Walker]], [[Karl Andersson]], Miranda Galbreath, [[Minor Attracted Person\|Amber Parker/Franklin High School]], [[Jacob Breslow]], and Police Scotland/European Union<ref>[https://www.scottishdailyexpress.co.uk/news/world-news/minor-attracted-person-scandal-inside-28858264 Scottish Daily Express scandal re. EU, Police Scotland using "Minor Attracted Person"]</ref>.
	*'''2020s''' - Attention is given by liberals to the "disturbing" rise of pedophile hunting as entertainment on a commercial scale via social media influencers, with levels of violence way beyond that condoned by network pioneers such as Chris Hansen, associated with ''[[To Catch a Predator]]''. The New York Times carries out an investigation into the activities of these many groups, after some were not correctly prosecuted. Influencers intersect tellingly with right-wing conspiracy theorists heavily invested in the normalisation/grooming narratives. Many of these vigilantes and conspiracy theorists [[Anti\|go on to be convicted]] for sex crimes involving children. By 2025, Trump himself is dragged into the Epstein saga, floated for so long by his followers, and has to downplay its importance.		*'''2020s''' - Attention is given by liberals to the "disturbing" rise of pedophile hunting as entertainment on a commercial scale via social media influencers, with levels of violence way beyond that condoned by network pioneers such as Chris Hansen, associated with ''[[To Catch a Predator]]''. The New York Times carries out an investigation<ref>[https://web.archive.org/web/20250327140547/https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2025/03/26/us/pedophile-hunting-violence.html Online ‘Pedophile Hunters’ Are Growing More Violent — and Going Viral - NYT]</ref> into the activities of these many groups, after some were not correctly prosecuted. Influencers intersect tellingly with right-wing conspiracy theorists heavily invested in the normalisation/grooming narratives. Many of these vigilantes and conspiracy theorists [[Anti\|go on to be convicted]] for sex crimes involving children. By 2025, Trump himself is dragged into the Epstein saga, floated for so long by his followers, and has to downplay its importance.

	*'''Going forward''' - The stages of moral panic summarized in the graphic on the right are an expansive analogy for how people come to terms with social "issues" in general. At the start, we are told "this is the issue" - the problem is ''identified'' and acknowledged. In the middle, we are told "these are the ''others'' who are to blame (''pathologization'') and moreover, such people are not of one single type and are among us" (''problematization''). At the end, the problem becomes so widely manifest, that we have to accept it as part of us. This is ''normalization''.		*'''Going forward''' - The stages of moral panic summarized in the graphic on the right are an expansive analogy for how people come to terms with social "issues" in general. At the start, we are told "this is the issue" - the problem is ''identified'' and acknowledged. In the middle, we are told "these are the ''others'' who are to blame (''pathologization'') and moreover, such people are not of one single type and are among us" (''problematization''). At the end, the problem becomes so widely manifest, that we have to accept it as part of us. This is ''normalization''.

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	*'''2016-present''' - Pedophile panic re-emerges in the conspiracy-fuelled culture wars of the Trump era. [[Wikipedia:QAnon\|Q-Anon]] and [[Wikipedia:Pizzagate conspiracy theory\|Pizzagate]] make bizarre claims of coded pedophile language and elite pedophilia running all the way to the very top of society. [[Wikipedia:Jeffrey Epstein\|Jeffrey Epstein]] is seemingly the poster-boy for this brand of elite debauchery. In 2018, a new wave of social media hysteria focusing on the "normalization of pedophilia" begins with the founding of [[Prostasia Foundation]]. Various controversies in academia follow, FOX News and the right wing media/influencers start identifying liberal trends in education and [[Transgender youth and attraction to minors\|trans-inclusivity]], accusing Disney among others of "[[grooming]]" children for [[degeneracy]]. In particular, we counted at least 14 [[MAPocalypse\|such controversies]] in 2021 and 2022, including Noah Berlatsky ([[Prostasia Foundation\|Prostasia]]), [[San Francisco Gay Men's Chorus\|SFGMC]], [[Allyn Walker]], [[Karl Andersson]], Miranda Galbreath, [[Minor Attracted Person\|Amber Parker/Franklin High School]], [[Jacob Breslow]], and Police Scotland/European Union<ref>[https://www.scottishdailyexpress.co.uk/news/world-news/minor-attracted-person-scandal-inside-28858264 Scottish Daily Express scandal re. EU, Police Scotland using "Minor Attracted Person"]</ref>.		*'''2016-present''' - Pedophile panic re-emerges in the conspiracy-fuelled culture wars of the Trump era. [[Wikipedia:QAnon\|Q-Anon]] and [[Wikipedia:Pizzagate conspiracy theory\|Pizzagate]] make bizarre claims of coded pedophile language and elite pedophilia running all the way to the very top of society. [[Wikipedia:Jeffrey Epstein\|Jeffrey Epstein]] is seemingly the poster-boy for this brand of elite debauchery. In 2018, a new wave of social media hysteria focusing on the "normalization of pedophilia" begins with the founding of [[Prostasia Foundation]]. Various controversies in academia follow, FOX News and the right wing media/influencers start identifying liberal trends in education and [[Transgender youth and attraction to minors\|trans-inclusivity]], accusing Disney among others of "[[grooming]]" children for [[degeneracy]]. In particular, we counted at least 14 [[MAPocalypse\|such controversies]] in 2021 and 2022, including Noah Berlatsky ([[Prostasia Foundation\|Prostasia]]), [[San Francisco Gay Men's Chorus\|SFGMC]], [[Allyn Walker]], [[Karl Andersson]], Miranda Galbreath, [[Minor Attracted Person\|Amber Parker/Franklin High School]], [[Jacob Breslow]], and Police Scotland/European Union<ref>[https://www.scottishdailyexpress.co.uk/news/world-news/minor-attracted-person-scandal-inside-28858264 Scottish Daily Express scandal re. EU, Police Scotland using "Minor Attracted Person"]</ref>.
	*'''2020s''' - Attention is given by liberals to the "disturbing" rise of pedophile hunting as entertainment on a commercial scale via social media influencers, with levels of violence way beyond that condoned by network pioneers such as Chris Hansen, associated with ''[[To Catch a Predator]]''. The New York Times carries out an investigation into the activities of these many groups, after some were not correctly prosecuted. Influencers intersect tellingly with right-wing conspiracy theorists heavily invested in the normalisation/grooming narratives. Many of these vigilantes and conspiracy theorists go on to be convicted for sex crimes involving children. By 2025, Trump himself is dragged into the Epstein saga, floated for so long by his followers, and has to downplay its importance.		*'''2020s''' - Attention is given by liberals to the "disturbing" rise of pedophile hunting as entertainment on a commercial scale via social media influencers, with levels of violence way beyond that condoned by network pioneers such as Chris Hansen, associated with ''[[To Catch a Predator]]''. The New York Times carries out an investigation into the activities of these many groups, after some were not correctly prosecuted. Influencers intersect tellingly with right-wing conspiracy theorists heavily invested in the normalisation/grooming narratives. Many of these vigilantes and conspiracy theorists [[Anti\|go on to be convicted]] for sex crimes involving children. By 2025, Trump himself is dragged into the Epstein saga, floated for so long by his followers, and has to downplay its importance.

	*'''Going forward''' - The stages of moral panic summarized in the graphic on the right are an expansive analogy for how people come to terms with social "issues" in general. At the start, we are told "this is the issue" - the problem is ''identified'' and acknowledged. In the middle, we are told "these are the ''others'' who are to blame (''pathologization'') and moreover, such people are not of one single type and are among us" (''problematization''). At the end, the problem becomes so widely manifest, that we have to accept it as part of us. This is ''normalization''.		*'''Going forward''' - The stages of moral panic summarized in the graphic on the right are an expansive analogy for how people come to terms with social "issues" in general. At the start, we are told "this is the issue" - the problem is ''identified'' and acknowledged. In the middle, we are told "these are the ''others'' who are to blame (''pathologization'') and moreover, such people are not of one single type and are among us" (''problematization''). At the end, the problem becomes so widely manifest, that we have to accept it as part of us. This is ''normalization''.