I'm going to point out that McCarthy was a fierce right-winger, and the "punish people for wrongthink" mentality has been almost exclusively a right-wing thing

I'm going to point out that McCarthy was a fierce right-winger, and the "punish people for wrongthink" mentality has been almost exclusively a right-wing thing until very recently Saying that both sides have engaged in it does not make it the correct thing to do. It's a disgusting thing for people to engage in, regardless of the political affiliation of the people doing it. That said, I have seen countless examples of cancel culture in action coming from the left, and comparatively few from the right. Even Obama has decried the left's zealousness to cancel people [1]. When Obama calls you too woke, you're probably too woke. As to the rest of your response, I was using the general idea of mccarthyism. The dictionary defines it as "a campaign or practice that endorses the use of unfair allegations and investigations". I think that definition squarely fits what happened here. [1] https://www.nytimes.com/2019/10/31/us/politics/obama-woke-cancel-culture.html https://www.nytimes.com/2019/10/31/us/politics/obama-woke-ca...