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The Gotcha Game

August 9, 2018July 19, 2020 Karma BennettArts & Culture

There’s a game radicals, progressives, and liberals like to play. We are always looking for the turncoat in our midst. Did you catch someone confusing transsexual with transgender? Five points for you. Someone ignorantly, but not sarcastically, asks “what’s wrong with the phrase All Lives Matter,” 10 points for you. Sexist blonde joke? 4 points.

Examination of a witch hunt by matteson, with the faces replaced with rage/troll faces

Moral Panic Attack: Callout Culture and Community

August 6, 2018May 1, 2020 SubversasArts & Culture

Moral panic is a sociological phenomena in which individuals or groups are persecuted within a larger social group. These panics are precipitated by the presence of several key ingredients: social order, fear of that social order being threatened, and the existence of taboos—unnameable things which members of the group cannot address without experiencing fear.