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>Not only on the back burner, but as some kind of weird, separate thing. No one is connecting the dots to the puritans. True. It's why they repeated the very s
by renholder 8y ago
>Not only on the back burner, but as some kind of weird, separate thing. No one is connecting the dots to the puritans.
True. It's why they repeated the very same prosecution complex trap during McCarthyism. Same finger-pointing scenario, it was just a different boogeyman to be afraid of - so it wasn't "the same".
- saalweachter 8y agoHate to break it to you, but witch hunts were a European thing: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Witch-hunt#Early_Modern_Europe https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Witch-hunt#Early_Modern_Europe The Salem affair is notable as "that one time we did the thing"; also, we hung our witches, we didn't burn them.
- mixmastamyk 8y agoSure these folks were Europeans, perhaps selected for nastiness.