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The underlying witch-hunt mentality has obviously existed since before the term witch-hunt. The new part is that social media arguably accelerates it. One wac
by free_rms 6y ago
The underlying witch-hunt mentality has obviously existed since before the term witch-hunt.
The new part is that social media arguably accelerates it. One wacko trying to burn the witches in a village full of level heads couldn't accomplish anything. Now they can band together nationally.
- genericone 6y agoThe Red Guards accomplished the national banding together thing, with the approval of the establishment, going from village to village, city to city, they burned and hanged witches, and destroyed problematic symbols too.
- free_rms 6y agoThey were actually incredibly fractured and fought each other a lot, actual fights with weapons and casualties. But still, you're right, they only got off the ground initially due to a national infrastructure encouraging them. Social Media is more of an accidental paper-clip-optimizer national encouragement.