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"etymology_text": "Modern usage appears to originate with Jock Young in 1971 and Stanley Cohen in 1972. Cohen states that \"[they] both probably picked it up from Marshall McLuhan's Understanding Media\".",
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"ref": "2016 July 2, Sophie Gilbert, “Is Moral Panic About Online Porn Misplaced?”, in The Atlantic",
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"ref": "2021 June 17, Moira Donegan, “What the moral panic about ‘critical race theory’ is about”, in The Guardian, →ISSN",
"text": "But maybe the very obscurity of this genuine critical race theory is the point: before it became the object of the American right’s latest moral panic, few people had heard of critical race theory, and even fewer understood what it really was.",
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"ref": "2023 June 29, Pamela Paul, “Do Not Panic. It’s Just a Moral Panic.”, in The New York Times, →ISSN",
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"roman": "dàodé kǒnghuāng",
"sense": "mass movement, public outcry",
"word": "道德恐慌"
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"sense": "mass movement, public outcry",
"word": "moraalipaniikki"
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"sense": "mass movement, public outcry",
"word": "panique morale"
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"roman": "ithikós panikós",
"sense": "mass movement, public outcry",
"word": "ηθικός πανικός"
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"sense": "mass movement, public outcry",
"word": "panico morale"
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"roman": "dōtokuteki na panikku",
"sense": "mass movement, public outcry",
"word": "道徳的なパニック"
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"code": "ko",
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"roman": "dodeokjeogin gonghwang",
"sense": "mass movement, public outcry",
"word": "도덕적인 공황"
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"sense": "mass movement, public outcry",
"word": "pavor moralis nom."
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"sense": "mass movement, public outcry",
"word": "pânico moral"
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"roman": "morálʹnaja pánika",
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"word": "мора́льная па́ника"
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"word": "pánico moral"
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"roman": "dàodé kǒnghuāng",
"sense": "mass movement, public outcry",
"word": "道德恐慌"
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"sense": "mass movement, public outcry",
"word": "moraalipaniikki"
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"sense": "mass movement, public outcry",
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"word": "tollé public"
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"sense": "mass movement, public outcry",
"word": "δημόσια κατακραυγή"
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"code": "it",
"lang": "Italian",
"sense": "mass movement, public outcry",
"word": "panico morale"
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"code": "ja",
"lang": "Japanese",
"roman": "dōtokuteki na panikku",
"sense": "mass movement, public outcry",
"word": "道徳的なパニック"
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"code": "ko",
"lang": "Korean",
"roman": "dodeokjeogin gonghwang",
"sense": "mass movement, public outcry",
"word": "도덕적인 공황"
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"code": "la",
"lang": "Latin",
"sense": "mass movement, public outcry",
"word": "pavor moralis nom."
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"code": "la",
"lang": "Latin",
"sense": "mass movement, public outcry",
"word": "pavoris moralis gen."
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"sense": "mass movement, public outcry",
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"word": "panika moralna"
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"lang": "Portuguese",
"sense": "mass movement, public outcry",
"word": "pânico moral"
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"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "morálʹnaja pánika",
"sense": "mass movement, public outcry",
"word": "мора́льная па́ника"
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"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "mássovaja isteríja",
"sense": "mass movement, public outcry",
"word": "ма́ссовая истери́я"
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"sense": "mass movement, public outcry",
"word": "pánico moral"
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