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Re:Politically-correct witch-hunt is killing free speech by SpicyLemonZest on Thursday July 02, 2020 @09:11PM (#23720027)
We've come back from this kind of environment before, and I don't see any reason to doubt we can do it again. Remember the Red Scare, or the Comics Code Authority?
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Re:Politically-correct witch-hunt is killing free speech by artificial on Friday July 03, 2020 @01:03AM (#23721165)
I agree America has wrestled problems in the past and overcame them. Wasn’t McCarthy validated after the fall of the Soviets? There were 100s of agents within the Federal government.
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Re:Politically-correct witch-hunt is killing free speech by jjeaff on Friday July 03, 2020 @02:10AM (#23721453)
Did anyone ever deny that there were likely Russian spies all over? I don't think that justifies the ridiculousness of McCarthyism. I mean, what was their error rate?
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