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I didn’t mean to imply it wasn’t a real thing. (I’m not a native English speaker so I’m probably missing a nuance of “scare” beyond what appears to be its liter

by pavlov 3y ago

I didn’t mean to imply it wasn’t a real thing. (I’m not a native English speaker so I’m probably missing a nuance of “scare” beyond what appears to be its literal meaning of the general public being afraid.)

sidewndr46 3y ago
"scare" in English is often used to describe a public over-reaction to a perceived threat. In the US we had the "red scare" that was an over reaction to communists in the US. A similar concept is the "satanic panic", the idea that all our children were being abducted by satanic cults.