Showing posts with label Moral Panic. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Moral Panic. Show all posts

How anti-trans BS gets its wings

Posted on 13 May 2024 by Nico Bell • 0 Comments

Anti trans groups cloak their bigotry in pseudo science, and rely on mainstream media too lazy or underfunded to fact check to get their word out. In truth they've adopted the SOP of Qanon, and deserve about as much credibility.

Anti drugs or just Anti-Semitic? Exposing Drug Free Australia

Posted on 22 December 2022 by Nico Bell • 0 Comments



Drug Free Australia sound like a stand up bunch of people on the face of it. Keeping kids from trying drugs until they're no longer so child like is a noble aim, I think we could all agree, even if in one's most exhausted, stressed out moments of parenthood the desire to sedate your kids has briefly flashed across your mind. 

Devine and Bolt bravely fight The Real Fascists

Posted on 11 September 2017 by Nico Bell • 0 Comments
When the far right declare anti-bigots The Real Fascists, they sound like OJ vowing to find The Real Killer. 

Say No To Devine On Drugs

Posted on 19 June 2008 by Nico Bell 2• Comments

Miranda Devine opens her latest column, on the evils of harm minimisation, with the story of Angela and Tony Wood, celebrating their daughter Anna's 28th birthday, thirteen years after she died from taking ecstasy - the human face of the anti-drugs movement. Devine claims that "Anna Wood [has been] co-opted without [her parents] permission as a poster girl of the drug harm-minimisation lobby". Not true, but she has sure been used as the face of zero tolerance, moral panic and hysteria. 

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