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Some examples would help here. Reading this did not bring any real world situations to mind for me.
by tyrw 9y ago
Some examples would help here. Reading this did not bring any real world situations to mind for me.
- meri_dian 9y ago>https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cultural_Revolution https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cultural_Revolution >https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/McCarthyism https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/McCarthyism >https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Salem_witch_trials https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Salem_witch_trials
- existencebox 9y ago(Edit/disclaimer, the sister post's examples of mcarthyism et al. are far better than my ken-burns-biased analogues) Prohibition comes to mind. Washingtonians and other early groups were based more in abstinance than prohibition; but the dogma shifted under a mix of social/religious pressures from the dominating voices in that fight to result in an all or nothing approach which, while it succeeded, had disastrous effects in the longer term.