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Politics : Foreign Affairs Discussion Group
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To: FaultLine who wrote (85925)3/25/2003 7:29:18 AM
From: Ilaine  Read Replies (2) of 281500
 
Typically liberals accuse conservatives of McCarthyism when conservatives criticize their ideas, and conservatives accuse liberals of hating our country when liberals criticize their ideas. Both are, in my opinion, ways of saying "your ideas stink and you should shut up."

I don't take charges of McCarthyism any more seriously than I take charges that someone hates our country (except for Chomsky). Both are silly and shallow accusations, in my opinion. On the one side you have people hissing "fascist, McCarthy" and on the other side people chanting, "America, love it or leave it." It's not debate, it's a caricature of debate.

McCarthy had the power to put people in prison for their ideology. Nobody has that power in America any more, and there is no threat of prison for ideology (well, except for Al Qaeda members).
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