1/ I have taught criminological theory for over 20 years. Every year I teach Cohen’s Folk Devils and Moral Panics. And every single time I see that the concerns of women and girls re defending sex-based rights and the political legitimacy of women-as-a-class being written off…

2/ as some supposed moral panic, I think “What utter fools. They’ve clearly not read the book. They clearly do not realise that they are placing themselves in the position of the moral entrepreneur and calling for new mechanisms like censorship, denunciation, threatening jobs ….

3/ and people’s livelihoods. They clearly haven’t figured out that their actions are what Cohen would call ‘the control wave’ that follows. They also clearly don’t realise that moral panics was a concept used to explanation deviancy amplification and control waves.” I then ….

4/ think I’ll do a thread. But as soon as I think that, I think “ah, it’s easier and quicker to just call them all conceptual imperialists serving a political and not academic agenda”.
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