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That is very different than how things used to work on this side of the iron curtain: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/McCarthyism#House_Committee_on_Un-American_A
by raganwald 15y ago
That is very different than how things used to work on this side of the iron curtain:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/McCarthyism#House_Committee_on_Un-American_Activities http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/McCarthyism#House_Committee_on_...
- bh42222 15y agoNature loves symmetry!
- learc83 15y agoI'm not defending McCarthyism, but the two just simply aren't comparable. It's like comparing the Japanese American Interment Camps to Auschwitz. Talk to the countless East Germans who were imprisoned b/c of a tip from one of the thousands of Stasi informants. See if their stories in any way compare to the people who were swept up in the red scare.
- raganwald 15y ago“Metaphors are to similes as transvestites are to my wife.” I am not suggesting the two are the same, but rather that thinking about the two at the same time and deciding in what ways they are the same and in what ways they are different is a useful exercise.
- learc83 15y agoI'll concede that.