A moral panic: widespread fear, most often irrational, that someone or something is a threat to the values, safety, and interests of a community or society at large.
This episode of 'Repeat Until Funny' tries to learn the lessons of the Garrotting panic of 1862, where Londoners wore exuberant spiked collars to protect themselves from a wildly exagerrated threat.
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