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Parents lamented about comic books? Link?
by j45 3y ago
Parents lamented about comic books? Link?
- philipswood 3y agoIf you far enough back parents lamented chess.
- philipswood 3y agoFound a link for that: https://gizmodo.com/chess-was-once-deemed-a-menace-to-society-1588675766 https://gizmodo.com/chess-was-once-deemed-a-menace-to-societ...
- j45 3y agoDoubtstorming doesn’t make it legitimate or not Not really sure how the previous posts relate to social media and mobile use in children which is well established
- philipswood 3y agoAgreed. My kids have restricted mobile and no social media access. But parents did use to think that comics would ruin their children - I'm responding to the disbelief in that.
- kouru225 3y agoI was wrong about the era, apparently the height of the comic book scare was the late 1950s, but it continued to the end of the century as far as I remember. It's all based on this book Seduction of the Innocent: https://www.amazon.com/Seduction-Innocent-Frederic-Wertham/dp/159683000X https://www.amazon.com/Seduction-Innocent-Frederic-Wertham/d... Here's an article about it: https://slate.com/culture/2008/04/the-campaign-against-comic-books.html https://slate.com/culture/2008/04/the-campaign-against-comic... The scare went all the way to Congress. Here's a book about the history of the comic book scare: https://www.amazon.com/Ten-Cent-Plague-Comic-Book-Changed-America/dp/0312428235 https://www.amazon.com/Ten-Cent-Plague-Comic-Book-Changed-Am...