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> My parents (mostly my mother) are very religious and I remember being driven around town with the local Christian radio station on and it being just wall-to-w
by pwg 13y ago
> My parents (mostly my mother) are very religious and I remember being driven around town with the local Christian radio station on and it being just wall-to-wall fear mongering about Satanism, backmasking in rock songs and D&D.
I wonder what the end effect of this trend:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7535218 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7535218 [Internet use is associated with non-religion]
will be on these kinds of "generated worries"? Will the fear mongers simply fade away, or will they find some different way to incite fear in others for their own gain?
- anon4 13y agoTumblr. Tumblr "feminism" (not to be confused with actual feminism). Tumblr "thin privilege" (not to be confused with people trying to practise healthy diets). And for completeness http://xkcd.com/1289/ http://xkcd.com/1289/ (alt text in particular).
- etherael 13y agoI think that's more generated outrage spawned from a place of immense disenfranchisement than generated fear spawned from a place of wanting desperately to belong to the cultural group you identify with.