This is flat out wrong. McCarthyism was powerful because it was enabled by mainstream authorities (FBI, liberal anti-Communists, GOP, mid-western business elite). See E. Schrecker, M. Rogin. Student activists have no such mainstream support. https://twitter.com/PsychRabble/status/972272004161200128 …
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The freedom to speak your ideas does not indicate that those ideas are correct. But if you think only correct opinions are allowed to be said, that explains a great deal.
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"Free speech" has always meant "what doesn't make Right Wing people too uncomfortable."
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Is there anything more amusing than people trying to argue by tendentiously misdefining words based on bad history? It's like a child who thinks they can't be seen if they close their eyes.
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The right-wing position on college protests has always been about trying to find some excuse to silence them. "We must kill free speech to save it" is the core of a lot of these recent right-wing thinkpieces (and many on the right ARE proposing legislation to silence protests.)
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