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Hysteria about the spread of

In 1969 the solicitation of homosexual relations was an illegal act in New York City (and indeed virtually all other urban centres). Gay bars were places of refuge where gay men and lesbians and other individuals who were considered sexually suspect could socialize in relative safety from public harassment. Many of those bars were, however, subject to regular police harassment.

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Y2K bug, also called Year 2000 bug or Millennium Bug, a problem in the coding of computerized systems that was projected to create havoc in computers and computer networks around the world at the beginning of the year 2000 (in metric measurements K stands for thousand). After more than a year of international alarm, feverish preparations, and programming corrections, few major failures occurred in the transition from December 31, 1999, to January 1, 2000.

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•Trump continues to exploit fears of terrorism, as well as discrimination towards Mexican immigrants being “rapists and criminals,” both of these being signs of McCarthyism

https://www.google.com/amp/s/thehill.com/blogs/congress-blog/presidential-campaign/290279-mccarthyism-returns-to-america%3famp

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People are afraid of Mexicans currently.

The rise of serial killers in the 90s lead people to be super scared of like anyone ever

The lavender scare // gay

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9/11 lead to mass hysteria because it was a horrible, sudden tragedy that many people did not see coming. Nobody knew how to react. Numerous people were affected and families were scarred and they lived in a state of paranoia.

Americans started burning down mosques and vandalizing them after 9/11. Individuals were killed solely because they were Muslim. Acts of violence and discrimination rose. Prejudice and racism towards those of the Islamic faith, people were more stereotypical. A few months after 9/11 there were 700 reported incidents of hate crimes towards Arab-Americans. Crimes based on religion, mostly affected people from the Middle East and Southeast Asia. Muslims were teased and called terrorists simply because of their looks and beliefs.

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•Tanganyika laughter epidemic-The laughter started with three girls and spread haphazardly throughout the school, affecting 95 of the 159 people.
•Charlie Charlie panic (2015) - Four teens in Tunja, Colombia were hospitalized, and several in the Dominican Republic were considered "possessed by Satan"

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Unions were special target of communist hunters. Sensing an unfavorable environment, the AFL (AMERICAN FEDERATION OF LABOR) and the CIO (CONGRESS OF INDUSTRIAL ORGANIZATIONS) merged in 1955 to close ranks. Books were pulled from library shelves, including Robin Hood, which was deemed communist-like for suggesting stealing from the rich to give to the poor.

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- lavender scare
- - when the government fired gay people in the 50s
- Salem witch trials
- - attacking women
- Red scare
- - fear of communism
- Japanese interment camps
- - putting Japanese citizens in internment camps for fear that they weren’t loyal to America
- labor unions
- fear of Muslims
- fear of immigrants
- fear of refugees all the time
- Great Depression

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-red-baiters: people who searched for Communists by pretending to be Communists
-war on terror
-illegal immigration

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-literally mccarthy himself and the red scare
-salem witch hunts
-policing of muslim neighborhoods
-9/11 scare
-fear mongering over immigrants
-japanese internment camps
-america hated germans after the war

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• Salem Witch Trials- attack on women who broke social norms.
• Japanese Internment Camps- WW2
• Red Scare
• Muslims- post 9/11
• Mexican Immigration- “They’re gonna take out jobs!!!”

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Serenity.     Desire for impeachment of trump and his collision with Russia 

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Serenity.     Desire for impeachment of trump and his collision with Russia 

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Flaws in the media
9/11 (All Muslims are terroist )
World war 2 (Japanese internment camps in fear of Japanese’s being a danger to America or they can be spys)
Holocaust(elimination of Jews, and the belief that American didn’t do a thing to help)
In the past, the perception of the black man being that he is a danger.

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American-Indian War- Fear of Natives
Edmond Andros
Storm Thurmond- Racism
Hippies- Fear of breaking away from norms
Stono Rebellion
Salem Witch Trials
Labotomys Cured Everything
Shaker Movement
Middle Easterners Post 9/11
60s Fear Of Goverment- MK Ultra
Fear Of Big Business

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•Red scare
• Salem Witch trials
•Suspicion of Russian meddling in 2016 election
•Modern day sexual harassment claims against people running for political office
•Believing labor unions contribute to businesses failing and being associated with violence, anarchism, and communism.
•Thinking Japanese are spies and threats after Pearl harbor
•Fear of immigrants being terrorists
•Blaming Native Americans for being uncivilized and taking land from Americans
•After 9/11 all muslims were seen as terrorists
•People believed that women working outside of the house led to misbehaved children at the beginning of the 20th century
•in the 70s when there was and HIV and 🤬 outbreak people blamed Gay people