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Except, there were communist infiltration plans in the 1950s. The same as theres coordinated russian plans supporting conservative nationalists. If you want ra
by cyanydeez 2y ago
Except, there were communist infiltration plans in the 1950s. The same as theres coordinated russian plans supporting conservative nationalists.
If you want rational protectionism, America would need to stop treating businesses as the unit of concern and enact stronger worker privacy and consumer protections.
The same way CIA backdoors are intrinsic unsafe, so are lax employee and consumer protections.
- whimsicalism 2y agogreat, we are rehabilitating mccarthyism now
- cyanydeez 2y agoNo, we are acknowledging Russian threats. Being paranoid about a threat is not the same thing as there being no threat. Reading comprehension can help you.
- krapp 2y agoIf any actual communist spies were rooted out by McCarthyism it was entirely coincidental, given that the actual purpose of McCarthyism was to oppress and blacklist undesirables like Jews and homosexuals and further Joe McCarthy's own political aspirations by collecting compromat on people. The definition of "communist" in those times was very loose. Just like how QAnon is obsessed with satanic pedophile rings that don't really exist, despite the existence of pedophile rings being real, because they don't actually care about child abuse as much as accelerating mistrust of and harassment against the LGBTQ community by implying any non-heterosexual identity is equivalent to pedophilia. A stopped clock is still right twice a day. If it's rational to mistrust foreigners because they might be spies, history suggests it's just as rational to mistrust the motives of people who spread fear and uncertainty about nefarious enemies within. Americans have far more to fear from their own government's attempts to grasp for power than they do from Chinese spies.