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		monoideism on June 25, 2020 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: I Am Deleting the Blog You're comparing McCarthyism to the Nazi genocide, the Red Terror, the horror of Stalinism and the Cultural Revolution?

wnoise on June 26, 2020 [–]

I'm saying it's another authoritarian impulse to squash dissent, yes. Smaller magnitude, sure. But that's exactly why you compare things -- to see what's better or worse.

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