Jacobin Show: America Loves a Moral Panic w/ Roger Lancaster

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🗓️ 18 November 2021

⏱️ 91 minutes

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Summary

Roger Lancaster, author of the book Sex Panic, joins the Jacobin Show to discuss the McMartin daycare trial, the Satanic ritual abuse panic of the 1980s, and the role of the mainstream media in fomenting moral panics across the US.

The Jacobin Show offers socialist perspectives on class and capitalism in the twenty-first century, the failures of liberalism, and the prospects of rebuilding a left labor movement in the US. This is the podcast version of the show from November 15, 2021 with Jen Pan and Paul Prescod hosting.

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0:00.0	Hey everyone, welcome back to the Jack of In Show, I'm Jen Pan.
0:22.3	Here finally again after so long, back with Labor Paul, Paul, it's been a minute.
0:27.7	How are you?
0:28.7	What's going on?
0:29.9	It's nice to be back.
0:31.6	I'm sorry I've been gone for so long.
0:33.5	I cheated on you all.
0:34.7	I was on weekends once, but it's crazy.
0:36.9	That's right.
0:37.3	Yeah, you did make an appearance not on your show, but on the other one.
0:42.2	No, we all, it's all it's all a mix these days.
0:46.8	Yeah, a lot going on in the news though.
0:49.1	I know that you are going to talk about some strike actions that have been bubbling up.
0:56.9	I'm going to talk about the recent election.
0:59.4	New York City, of course, among other places had an election for mayor and for city council
1:05.3	seats, and there was a surprising twist in that race where a lot of Asian American voters
1:12.0	actually flipped to the Republicans, so I'm going to unpack that in a bit.
1:16.4	And I also want to mention that we have Roger Lancaster, who is the author of the book Sex
1:22.0	Panic, which is about moral panics, and he also has a new piece in the latest issue of Jacobin,
1:27.9	which I believe just dropped today.
1:29.9	It's called The Devil Goes to Pre-School, and it's about the satanic panic in the 80s
1:34.3	and the McMartan daycare trial.
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