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Aral Balkan (aral@mastodon.ar.al)'s status on Tuesday, 02-Apr-2024 06:05:31 JST Aral Balkan

It seems McCarthyism is alive and well and targeting folks in the tech world who speak out against Israel’s genocide of the Palestinian people.
Let me tell you this: it only makes me want to shout louder.
You will not silence us. We will not sit idly by and watch a genocide unfold before our very eyes. And history will judge you harshly even if our crumbling, hypocritical, two-tier system of so-called international law does not.
#israel #palestine #gaza #genocide #ethnicCleansing #McCarthyism

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- Aral Balkan (aral@mastodon.ar.al)'s status on Tuesday, 02-Apr-2024 06:08:08 JST Aral Balkan
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  @eatyourglory https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/McCarthyism
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  1. McCarthyism
    
    McCarthyism, also known as the Second Red Scare, was the political repression and persecution of left-wing individuals and a campaign spreading fear of alleged communist and Soviet influence on American institutions and of Soviet espionage in the United States during the late 1940s through the 1950s. After the mid-1950s, U.S. Senator Joseph McCarthy, who had spearheaded the campaign, gradually lost his public popularity and credibility after several of his accusations were found to be false. The U.S. Supreme Court under Chief Justice Earl Warren made a series of rulings on civil and political rights that overturned several key laws and legislative directives, and helped bring an end to the Second Red Scare. Historians have suggested since the 1980s that as McCarthy's involvement was less central than that of others, a different and more accurate term should be used instead that more accurately conveys the breadth of the phenomenon, and that the term McCarthyism is, in the modern day, outdated. Ellen Schrecker has suggested that Hooverism, after FBI Head J. Edgar Hoover, is more appropriate.What would become known...
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