Manufactured crises are when a person or a group cries out to others that something or someone is in danger from a different something or someone... when it really isn't. This is either because the claimed threat doesn't actually exist, or the claimed threat doesn't actually credibly threaten the thing that is purported to be threatened.
Unfortunately manufactured crises can be just as believable and seem just as real and dangerous as real crises when put together well. This especially goes if the reasoning behind manufactured crises plays to peoples' already existing prejudices and preconceptions about the things or other groups of people that are cast as being a threat.
Manufactured crises are frequently used in politics to rile up supporters and win over new ones. They often have a lot of overlap with conspiracy theories due to their shared nature of being untrue at their core. Hateful ideologies like antisemitism, homophobia, xenophobia, etc are also often propped up by manufactured crises that say that Jews/gays/foreigners/some other group are a threat to us, our family, our children, our country, our way of life, whatever.
Unfortunately manufactured crises can be just as believable and seem just as real and dangerous as real crises when put together well. This especially goes if the reasoning behind manufactured crises plays to peoples' already existing prejudices and preconceptions about the things or other groups of people that are cast as being a threat.
Manufactured crises are frequently used in politics to rile up supporters and win over new ones. They often have a lot of overlap with conspiracy theories due to their shared nature of being untrue at their core. Hateful ideologies like antisemitism, homophobia, xenophobia, etc are also often propped up by manufactured crises that say that Jews/gays/foreigners/some other group are a threat to us, our family, our children, our country, our way of life, whatever.
ben: We've got to stop the gays. They're brainwashing and indoctrinating our children and turning them gay in our schools with all that diversity and inclusion bullcrap they're pushing! It's all part of their agenda!
chris: Simmer down, ben. Take a rational look at what's actually happening. Even if you feel uncomfortable around gay people, that whole bit about schools brainwashing children into being gay is nothing more than a manufactured crisis by right-wing leaders to rile you up. What schools are doing is teaching about the fact that queer people exist and that they should be respected the same as you would any other person. It's nowhere near being the "brainwashing" that the news pundits hype it up to be, and the goal certainly isn't to "turn our children gay".
chris: Simmer down, ben. Take a rational look at what's actually happening. Even if you feel uncomfortable around gay people, that whole bit about schools brainwashing children into being gay is nothing more than a manufactured crisis by right-wing leaders to rile you up. What schools are doing is teaching about the fact that queer people exist and that they should be respected the same as you would any other person. It's nowhere near being the "brainwashing" that the news pundits hype it up to be, and the goal certainly isn't to "turn our children gay".
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A ween crisis happens, in a mostly, or all-female, heteronormative environment; unless the main store manager is asexual. There will come a time where your straight female store manager will find a new man. She can either handle this professionally (you have no idea who this man is and her personal life comes up once or twice, but that’s it) or she can handle this in the form of a ween crisis. (The man shows up at the job, she takes off for him frequently or slacks off at work, or a whole host of other things.) This can be demoralizing for the rest of the group, who now think they don’t have to do anything cause the store manager is slacking off. The ween crisis is a result of letting your sex life come before your work life, and it affects your whole team.
A ween crisis happens, in a mostly, or all-female, heteronormative environment; unless the main store manager is asexual. There will come a time where your straight female store manager will find a new man. She can either handle this professionally (you have no idea who this man is and her personal life comes up once or twice, but that’s it) or she can handle this in the form of a ween crisis. (The man shows up at the job, she takes off for him frequently or slacks off at work, or a whole host of other things.) This can be demoralizing for the rest of the group, who now think they don’t have to do anything cause the store manager is slacking off. The ween crisis is a result of letting your sex life come before your work life, and it affects your whole team.
Regional manager 1: Why is insert store location here doing so poorly this quarter?
Regional manager 2: It appears this store is in a ween crisis.
Regional manager 2: It appears this store is in a ween crisis.
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