the Black Panthers had so many garbage people they made a flaming pile of garbage you could see from space, and a lot of their garbage people did bad things but not as many as they could have, because the Panthers were busy with food drives and schools and stuff
Is the core of this witch-hunts and blacklists of the sort the ADL compiles? An anti-immigration group, eg, will have members who oppose immigration for various reasons. The most committed members of a group will be more extreme than avg recruits.
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... but if it has one prominent member who is WN, it's a "WN group" and no one who joins it can hold professional employment This isn't the case for leftist groups. Liberals work with hard-left types who defend everything Stalin ever did and have no consequences to face
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Yeah, but that wasn't always the case. It used to be the opposite. The McCarthy-shattered remnants of Old Left communism wound up training the civil rights movement because only the civil rights movement was sufficiently desperate to accept the help.
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And, of course, the communists had something real and valuable to offer, and were sufficiently beaten down to accept the fact that the civil rights movement wasn't going to be Full Communism 2.0.
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Interesting pov. But when ppl looked at MLK (or the ACLU, or other groups) & said "This is a communist group. You are communists, or puppets of communists", no one cared, and no one lost their jobs. & even at the height of the "scare", Hollywood wasn't purged, State wasn't... y?
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Massive numbers of ppl in the civil rights movement lost their jobs. Their names got published in newspapers to facilitate it.
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Don't look at it in terms of what happens now; look at it in terms of what happened then.
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