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I feel like it’ll take another dozen years before some people are ready to admit that “Liberal McCarthyism” is exactly what emerged around 2017. And in the mea
by publidat 9y ago
I feel like it’ll take another dozen years before some people are ready to admit that “Liberal McCarthyism” is exactly what emerged around 2017.
And in the meantime, as someone who’s not interested in waiting on the current power-brokers in SV to admit to it, I think it makes sense for those who are the primary target of this new McCarthyism to engineer a way to preseve their rights.
Depending on SV’s prevailing power structure is obviously a terrible idea.
- the_cat_kittles 9y agoi dont know, i dont see alot of damage from the pendulum swinging "too far"? i guess some of the speaker harassment on college campuses and some calling for some prof's heads is bs... what else? probably jeffery lord (despite sucking super hard) shouldn't have been fired. i dont know, maybe im missing some, but it seems like this is not sufficient grounds to feel so aggrieved.
- mcguire 9y agoPersonally, I wouldn't start worrying about "Liberal McCarthyism" in the United States until liberals have control of the presidency, the congress, and at least a fair majority of the states.
- publidat 9y agoThe fact that this post, and the Sam Altman posts, have been made invisible on this site is the millionth depressingly predictable example of why it's well past time for the people who are endlessly silenced to engineer their own solutions and not rely on the infrastructure of the current power-brokers.