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> "How would you feel if the government censored you, infiltrated your gatherings, and sidelined you from mainstream society?" It already happened to the left
by ThrowawayR2 6y ago
> "How would you feel if the government censored you, infiltrated your gatherings, and sidelined you from mainstream society?"
It already happened to the left before and it was called the Red Scare of the '50s. It is strange to see the modern left dig up those old repressive practices and adopt the for their own but "those who fail to learn from history are doomed to repeat it" I suppose.
- scruple 6y agoThe Occupy movement was targeted and that was barely a decade ago.
- dragonwriter 6y agoAfrican-American civil rights activists have been targeted pretty consistently for...well, most of American history, really.
- scruple 6y agoYep, Fred Hampton and MLK, Jr. being the most well-known, at least to myself.
- dragonwriter 6y agoUm, it's happening to the left now (including infiltration, active attempts by government provocateurs to discredit, and even government agents collaborating with violent non-government actors engaging in violent retaliation, etc.; BLM has been a particular target), with government power involved much more than in anything targeting the Right. That seems to be GPs point, actually. It's silly when those on the right are pretending that th comparatively minor private exclusion that the more extreme Right is subjected to might sometime be directed at the Left. The Left is used to much worse, at the hands of the State along with private exclusion, routinely.