A witch-hunt is a search for witches or evidence of witchcraft, often involving moral panic. This is a manipulated intense feeling expressed in a population about an issue that appears to threaten the social order. Or that mythical beast of burden – the right-wing tax payer. Tories are moral entrepreneurs, who have despicably used the media to transform the most vulnerable social groups into folk devils. Conservatives have always created social tension and ensured that criticism and disagreement are difficult because the matter at the centre of such controversy is taboo. The right-wing media have aided and abetted the Tories, who have long operated as agents of moral indignation. I can see a very clear, common framework of reference for prejudice and persecution here, Mr Cameron.
Posted on: Sat, 12 Apr 2014 17:13:33 +0000
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