Inkican@inkican@mastodon.social
E.T. will make you worship Satan - I wish I was kidding.
https://inkican.com/sci-friday-225-80s-moral-panic-and-e-t/
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Scott Francis@darkuncle@infosec.exchange
@inkican@mastodon.social I grew up in that era and I remember all the moral panic stuff, and even as a kid it just seemed ... frantic? There's a new podcast out that goes over some of this in detail (notably focusing on what the church in America did wrong in enabling the pearl-clutching) and it's pretty good: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/devil-and-the-deep-blue-sea/id1778512810