Also, it's funny that the headline describes Dungeons and Dragons as setting off a moral panic; I thought it was Christianity.
I don't really mind the title, nobody's demanding that it be revised and it's clear what is meant, but I think it's reasonable to point out where the responsibility lies.
Definitely the overreacting organised group, but also a large amount of blame falls on the media helping them promote their overreactions to the masses
The reason why the moral panics in the last couple of years have not been from the religious right isn't so much because they've particularly changed, but because the media isn't willing to push those anymore, and the media on the right just isn't large enough right now to sustain their own. (Give it another three or four years at current pace, though.)
That said, the position is not wholly different from "laws are the leading cause of crime" or "the ebola outbreak did not cause people to panic - it was their desire to live and be healthy".
But that's an interesting analogy. Why are people who take certain drugs "criminals"? Because we passed laws against it.
Some laws have a legitimate moral basis, others don't -- and I guess the same is true about moral panics.
The first three statements all roughly take the form "if only you would stop regarding X as Y, then you would stop observing Y when X happens".
"Just stop regarding the content of D&D as morally corrupting, and then you will not need to panic when you find your children playing it."
"Just stop considering robbery to be illegal, and then crime rates will plummet."
"Just stop wanting to be healthy and then you won't mind the ebola outbreaks when they occur."
By contrast, "Stop dressing so sexy and then noone will rape you anymore" is not a suggestion that you can make a problem go away simply by ceasing to regard it as a problem. It may be an absurd attempt to transfer blame by stripping the rapists of their moral agency, but it proposes to solve a problem in the world by taking a physical action in the world.