we're in a time of moral panic. this is what it looks like.
familiar to those who lived through the D&D satanic panic.
familiar to those who lived through the D&D satanic panic.
We _are_ in a time of poorly motivated clickbait content, however. That's what this is. There's a certain irony here somewhere in people being outraged about the outrage they perceive others to have... the original outrage doesn't even exist and yet another outrage cycle begins.
You know who else had a similar mustache? https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/e/eb/OrwellB...
But that was in the mid-1920s. Obviously it was fashionable at one point, in some circles, and once it was associated with Hitler, people stopped wearing it.
There is a distinction between saying "something associated with something bad is aesthetically displeasing or embarrassing" and saying "something associated with something bad is a terrible crime". The former is not a moral panic.