Successive moral panics recycled the same demonizing stereotypes across groups
Evidence
These more ‘spectacular’ moments need, however, to be placed against a longer and broader backdrop of Muslim demonization in Britain and, I would argue, cannot be understood without this historical and discursive racist hinterland. … It is worth noting, for example, that explanations for the ‘Asian gang’ folk devil of the 1990s (Alexander 2000) drew on the same images of cultural dysfunction and identity crisis that demonized black youth in the 1980s (Alexander 1996), urban ‘gangs’ in the 2000s (Alexander 2008), and Muslim ‘grooming gangs’ and ‘fundamentalism’ in the 2010s. — Runnymede Trust (ed. Farah Elahi & Omar Khan), Islamophobia, 162
Categorization
- XREF: Connects to the reader’s curated history of moral panics about Muslims — extends it to show stereotype recycling across decades and groups. — connects to: Depicting the Other’s politics as sexualized madness marks them as an inferior race; A moral panic happens when society reacts with exaggerated fear or anger to a group seen as a threat to moral values. — Moral Panic; Cohen (1972, p. 9) defined moral panic as a condition where a group emerges to become defined as a threat to societal values and interests, presented in a stylized way by mass media. — Moral Panic (+4 more)