Popular culture moral panic you remember

[Original TMNT Cartoon Fan]

What popular culture moral panic do you remember?

I recall when video was considered too violent, hard rock and heavy metal being considered satanic and blamed for church arsons, a lot of fighting videogames being blamed for violence.

Can someone please move this to Everyting else.

[Spike Spiegel]

Pokémon and Harry Potter were paths to Satan when I was a kid.

[Original TMNT Cartoon Fan]

Can someone plese move this to "everything else"?

[Prowler]

Portuguese media sh*ting on pro wrestling. On one hand they'd say it was "fake", but on the other one they also said it was violent and turned kids violent.

[Jephael]

I think The Simpsons got similar flak for the stuff they did in the early days of the series.

[sdp]

There's the current SJW moral panic on how offensive everything is affecting video games now. Ironic how the left can be as censor happy as the right was.

I remember as a kid anime was blamed for everything, since it was anime they did have plenty of perverted/violent stuff, Saint Seiya, Ranma etc were among the popular shows at the time.

[Wildcat]

Mortal Kombat and Grand Theft Auto were the biggest video games to cause "moral panic" from what I remember. When they first came out anyway. San Andreas Hot Coffee hack stirred up attention for a bit. (Pun intended)

Beavis and Butt-head. Some kid died from starting a fire I think which led to the warning before each episode and moved later at night.

[Original TMNT Cartoon Fan]

Originally Posted by sdp

There's the current SJW moral panic on how offensive everything is affecting video games now. Ironic how the left can be as censor happy as the right was.

I remember as a kid anime was blamed for everything, since it was anime they did have plenty of perverted/violent stuff, Saint Seiya, Ranma etc were among the popular shows at the time.

I like this

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A73ZSt9gWTs

[Shark_Blade]

Originally Posted by Spike Spiegel

Pokémon and Harry Potter were paths to Satan when I was a kid.

I always laughed at those stupid uneducated morons.

[DestronMirage22]

Garbage Pail Kids cards were banned from a lot of schools back then for "being a distraction in class", "ridiculing the handicapped", and "glorifieing violence".

C'mon! That's what made them great!

[ToTheNines]

Originally Posted by Spike Spiegel

Pokémon and Harry Potter were paths to Satan when I was a kid.

Yes, those were the two main ones of our generation.

I didn't understand the Harry Potter flak at all. They were good wizards fighting bad wizards, never overtly contradicted Christianity, and it was far from the first piece of fiction of its kind.

Where was the outrage for Wizard of Oz? Merlin and Arthur? The Rankin/Bass Santa Claus stuff? It was definitely when I started to realize adults could be as stupid and gullible as children.

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Now Pokémon is a different story. I lived and breathed that sh*t all through 3rd grade and couldn't stand when people shunned it, but Jesus Christ, what a dystopian society that portrays. They live in world where pretty much every non-human creature has an amazing ability... and not only do they fight them, but they're ****ing encouraged to fight them! Plus all the 10 year olds having shower room ass sex? Bleh.

And I wish I could say it was all harmless fun, but the consumerism it espoused was a ****ing plaque. Kids were stealing, smuggling and losing their minds over it.

I was unloading a Charizard I stole from a good friend, and when word got out I had to bloody a kids face with a garden hose nozzle when he, his friend and his ****ing little sister jumped me in the street.

He already had all 151 cards, but was willing to rob me of my binder because "we want doubles".

Sick.

[DestronMirage22]

Originally Posted by ToTheNines

Plus all the 10 year olds having shower room ass sex? Bleh.

Wait, what?
Have you been reading CyberCubed's old fan-fiction?

[Storm Eagle]

Originally Posted by DestronMirage22

Garbage Pail Kids cards were banned from a lot of schools back then for "being a distraction in class", "ridiculing the handicapped", and "glorifieing violence".

C'mon! That's what made them great!

I've never liked GPK, but I never thought those things about them. I'm pretty sure it's not what the creators were going for either. I remember my third grade teacher banning them, but it was most likely because she thought they were sick to look at, and stupid. Also, I went to a different school when I was in first grade, and we had this substitute teacher for a while. She considered them toys, and we weren't allowed to bring toys to school.

Originally Posted by ToTheNines

Yes, those were the two main ones of our generation.

I didn't understand the Harry Potter flak at all. They were good wizards fighting bad wizards, never overtly contradicted Christianity, and it was far from the first piece of fiction of its kind.

Any practice of magic is considered a sin in Christianity. I'm a Christian, but I got the books. They never inspired me to try any spells though, and they probably haven't had that effect on all kids. Then again, I was 23 when I started reading them, and the fifth book would come out a year later.

[ToTheNines]

So Moses committed a sin when he parted the Red Sea?

[DisKosh]

Originally Posted by Spike Spiegel

Pokémon and Harry Potter were paths to Satan when I was a kid.

Yeah, my parents forbade Pokemon and they weren't too keen on Harry Potter. Though come to think of it, they allowed Pokemon books so I suspect it may have been down to money and the religion was an excuse...

They never went as far as claiming they were paths to Satan, just that they weren't very Christian which seems odd because they were okay with the Horrid Henry books which basically glorifies bad behaviour.

[Cure]

God parted the Red Sea through Moses' staff. Wasn't magic.

[ToTheNines]

Ok, and to my understanding, pretty much every great feat in the Bible was accomplished through God. Harry Potter never said the magic at hand wasn't God's work.

Either way, it's ****ing fiction. And there'd been a million other witch/wizard stories in various mediums before it. Just goes to show what sheep people can be.

[Storm Eagle]

Originally Posted by ToTheNines

Ok, and to my understanding, pretty much every great feat in the Bible was accomplished through God. Harry Potter never said the magic at hand wasn't God's work.

Either way, it's ****ing fiction. And there'd been a million other witch/wizard stories in various mediums before it. Just goes to show what sheep people can be.

J.K. Rowling doesn't even think magic is real.

[ProactiveMan]

Originally Posted by ToTheNines

Harry Potter never said the magic at hand wasn't God's work.

That's funny to think about; he'd be pretty pissed off if that were the case. Parting the Red Sea is something you only have to do once in 3000 years - those wizards are at it 24/7.

"Hey... guys... you wanna try lighting candles yourselves for a change, you know, with matches or something. This constant divine intervention is getting out of hand."

[MsMarvelDuckie]

Here's one from my generation- parents and religious groups claiming Dungeons and Dragons role-playing (especially LARPing) was Satanic and evil. There were SUPPOSEDLY incidents of teens offing themselves (or friends) over the deaths of their characters or over events in their game sessions. All urban myth and rumor/hearsay, of course. NO such VERIFIED cases ever happened. But people were convinced it would turn kids to devil-worship and cults because they took on the roles of adventuring PRIESTS, KNIGHTS and BARDS fighting against evil monsters! (Wizards, thieves and Druids or fighters too, but you get the point.) There was even a movie made depicting the "dangers of role-playing games"- Mazes and Monsters.