Phillip Tanaka
Swabbie
Banned
I am interested to see who thinks America is using McCarthyism and McCarthy like tactics so they can trap Iraq in a war.
Originally posted by junior
Well,...
The thing in the modern day and age that's closest to McCarthyism is probably charges of racial bias on University campuses. There's a fairly simple formula involved. Charge bias, get a few key (largely black, as it turns out) minority leaders involved (usually Jesse Jackson and Al Sharpton), and launch a wave of protests at the location. Claim that anyone who doesn't support (say, because they go to class instead of joining your protest) you is a racist, and that dialogue over the "facts" is irrelevant because the facts of the case have already been settled. And then keep it up until the administration caves to your demands by firing the scapegoated faculty member (or dismissing the scapegoated student, depending on the specific incident) and promising to hire more minority faculty members.
By branding Ludendorff as guilty for the loss of the World War they took the weapon of moral right from the one dangerous accuser who could have risen against the traitors to the fatherland. In this they proceeded on the sound principle that the magnitude of a lie always contains a certain factor of credibility, since the great masses of the people in the very bottom of their hearts tend to be corrupted rather than consciously and purposely evil, and that, therefore, in view of the primitive simplicity of their minds they more easily fall a victim to a big lie than to a little one, since they themselves lie in little things, but would be ashamed of lies that were too big. Such a falsehood will never enter their heads and they will not be able to believe in the possibility of such monstrous effrontery and infamous misrepresentation in others; yes, even when enlightened on the subject, they will long doubt and waver, and continue to accept at least one of these causes as true. Therefore, something of even the most insolent lie will always remain and stick-a fact which all the great lie-virtuosi and lying-clubs in this world know only too well and also make the most treacherous use of.