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#moralpanic

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#Trump’s #AntiTrans policies mirror the #LavenderScare, when thousands of #LGBTQ+ #federal employees were purged from the government (the 1940s-60s). 🚨 Fueled by #McCarthyism and #MoralPanic, it destroyed careers and lives, leading to suicides but also sparking a civil rights movement. Now, Trump bans #trans people from the #military, rolls back #healthcare, and fuels fear for political gain, echoing history’s worst #injustices.

Read more from LGBTQ Nation (@(@LGBTQNation@flipboard.com), a leading source for LGBTQ+ news: https://rb.gy/9n8ck3

#LGBTQRights #TransRightsAreHumanRights #LavenderScare
This image is a black-and-white photograph of an old newspaper clipping with a bold headline that reads: “18 Homosexuals Lose U.S. Jobs.” The article mentions that State Department security officers removed 18 homosexuals from government positions, referring to their dismissal as “weeding” them out from the ranks of the Department and the Foreign Service. This headline is from the Lavender Scare, a period from the 1940s through the 1960s when thousands of LGBTQ+ individuals were fired or forced to resign from government jobs. It was fueled by a moral panic and anti-communist hysteria, paralleling McCarthyism and the Red Scare. LGBTQ+ people were falsely labeled as security risks and accused of being vulnerable to communist blackmail. President Dwight D. Eisenhower’s Executive Order 10450 (1953) officially barred “sexual perverts” from federal employment, leading to mass firings and life-altering consequences, including suicides.
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okanogen VerminEnemyFromWithin

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#MoralPanic, and including many otherwise liberal, historic, feminists (labeled terfs) who were peeled off by lack of intersectionality or understanding the difference of experiences and hard line stances all around.
Instead of labels and derision of each side, dialog should have happened, acknowledgement, understanding.... The Right was more than happy to divide their enemies.
It's not too late. It's never too late, and never soon enough.

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Jeff Jarvis

Mika piles on: "Literally, for kids, I wonder if cigarettes are going to look like child play compared to what social media is doing to this country but to the minds of young people." After a long vacation, they have a lot of #MoralPanic to get out.

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Jeff Jarvis

Carr is at it again with his latest #MoralPanic: now social media.
"As communication becomes more mechanized and efficient, it breeds confusion more than understanding, strife more than harmony. Media technologies all too often bring out the worst in us."
Yeah, print was a bear.
wwnorton.com/books/97813240646

wwnorton.comSuperbloomFrom the author of <em>The Shallows</em>, a bracing exploration of how social media has warped our sense of self and society., Superbloom, How Technologies of Connection Tear Us Apart, Nicholas Carr, 9781324064619
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Jeff Jarvis

Haidt does not act as a researcher. He is a moral entrepreneur, a lobbyist benefitting from the #MoralPanic he instigates:
Jonathan Haidt lobbied politicians by accusing teen social media ban critics of 'burying' evidence via @crikey_news crikey.com.au/2024/12/12/anxio

Crikey · Jonathan Haidt lobbied politicians by accusing teen social media ban critics of ‘burying’ evidenceBy Cam Wilson
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