Alant Hunt: Moral Panics

Alant Hunt, makes a point that moral panics are part of wider dynamics of “moral panics” in which some agents act to “problematize the conduct, values or culture of others and seek to act upon them though moralizing discourses, moralizing, practises, and religion.”(cited in Krinsky, C. 2013, p.134)The contemporary example of moral panic issue surrounding ‘gay-propaganda’ law in Russia was justified by the Russian politician Vitaly Milonov, as the need to protect children from being corrupted and uphold Orthodox Christian moral values as gay people stand as threat to those values. (Available at: http://sputniknews.com/analysis/20120830/175525037/Vitaly-Milonov-Laying-Down-Gods-Law-in-Russia.html) The agent of the moral panic is an Orthodox Church, …show more content…
Philosopher recognized the economic exploitation was not the only driver of capitalism, the state reinforcing hegemony “the ruling ideas of each age have ever been the ideas of its ruling class” the idea of false consciousness would keep the working class from recognising and rejecting oppression. (Heywood, 1994 p.100) The contemporary issue of moral panic in Russia performed though use of Orthodox Church to disseminate hegemony and in this case worked successfully for the authoritarian state that fully, controls its citizens to the fact of violently discriminating gay people. In addition, Russian citizens are afraid of gay people and see them as a ‘folk devil,’ at the same time, as British society frightened of piece of clothing such as a