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Trust a Cato article/infographic/whatever to totally ignore the red scare and rightist motivation for virtually all political surveillance and repression.
by tedks 11y ago
Trust a Cato article/infographic/whatever to totally ignore the red scare and rightist motivation for virtually all political surveillance and repression.
- lsy 11y agoLook, I'm as left-leaning as anyone, but check the link. The timeline is chock full of stuff on oppression of leftists.
- magicGLASSman 11y agoThis is a false dichotomy, you can be right or left leaning and also be libertarian or authoritarian[0]. [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Political_compass https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Political_compass
- zahmahkibo 11y ago1. The political compass is oversimplified and not taken seriously by political scientists 2. This has nothing to do with his argument. In the US, surveillance is largely the product of moral panics, primarily 1. The red scare 2. The race scare 3. The drug scare, which itself is really just a synthesis of 1 and 2; the drug war was essentially invented to attack black and Latino communities as well as anti government "subversives." Maybe that's not true in EVERY state that has used mass surveillance, but it is true in the specific case of the US.
- gozur88 11y agoYou might try reading before criticizing.
- nateabele 11y agoAnd what of the countless civil liberties erosions of progressive hero FDR?