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Re:The 1936-1937 Purge of Soviet Astronomers (1991) by newsclues on Monday April 18, 2022 @08:24AM (#31069743)
Work camps are just the extreme of the policies that we have yet to implement. We seem to be lubing the slippery slope towards it though, with political correctness and cancel culture.
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Re:The 1936-1937 Purge of Soviet Astronomers (1991) by MisterTea on Monday April 18, 2022 @09:14AM (#31070112)
> Work camps are just the extreme of the policies that we have yet to implement.

Yet to? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Penal_labor_in_the_United_Stat...

> We seem to be lubing the slippery slope towards it though, with political correctness and cancel culture.

No we are not.

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Re:The 1936-1937 Purge of Soviet Astronomers (1991) by JaimeThompson on Monday April 18, 2022 @11:26AM (#31071968)
When do you think cancel culture started?
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Re:The 1936-1937 Purge of Soviet Astronomers (1991) by newsclues on Monday April 18, 2022 @02:14PM (#31074387)
Probably it started thousands of years ago, but recently it has certainly changed and become a new and terrible thing with social media.
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