I had it as a footnote because I meant it to pertain to a more broad group of people than rich white men. My point wasn't to make a snide remark like "oh every

I had it as a footnote because I meant it to pertain to a more broad group of people than rich white men. My point wasn't to make a snide remark like "oh everyone gets mad at the poor CEOs". My point was that crowds seem to enjoy watching public displays of punishment. With the internet, this only gets amplified. As far as being "as sensitive as using 'Auschwitz'", I was/am not aware of any narrow set of events or group of people that were "systematically murdered" under the term "witch hunt" [0]. Granted, I only did a cursory check. The term is generally accepted as a category of attack, as opposed to referencing a singular event (such as the Holocaust). From the Wikipedia page: "In current language, "witch-hunt" metaphorically means an investigation usually conducted with much publicity, supposedly to uncover subversive activity, disloyalty and so on, but really to weaken political opposition." [0]: I will concede that, yes, people were actually gruesomely murdered under the guise of being witches, which might be enough to refrain from using the term for something that is not murder, but I'd hardly call murdering anybody you don't like "systematic".