"Moral panics rely on an inherent paradox: that the rights of a small minority of the population wielding little institutional power are in fact a risk to the majority. This is achieved by inciting in the population a mixture of moral disgust and anxiety about contagion. The problem group may be small now, but they will grow. They will grow by encouraging confused young people to join."
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Shon Faye, : An Argument for Justice |date=2021 |publisher=Allen Lane |isbn=978-0-241-42314-1}} Chapter Six
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