Word: mccarthyism
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...Amtrak train on Friday. He was even discovered to be hiding a daggeractually a symbolic weaponin his shirt. A woman wearing a sari was nearly run down by a man outraged that he had been stopped by the cops. These are isolated instances of a sense of paranoid McCarthyism which we had thankfully left behind us. We must not allow it to resurface at a time when we need careful analysis and effective action...
...develop themselves and contribute to the well-being of mankind. It is a land where the unusual creativity of individuals is rewarded, where laws are made by the people and taken seriously. We must not give in to insecurity, a false sense of paranoia, a reversion to weak-kneed McCarthyism to break the promises of generations of gifted and humane thinkers who have created this extraordinary republic as a symbol of freedom for the entire world...
...thing is certain: though they raged for three months this past year, debates over the distinctions between persuasion and coercion, censure and censorship, and civility and "left-wing McCarthyism" yielded no clear resolutions about how an academic community like Harvard should preserve the principle of free speech while remaining sensitive to its spectrum of opinions...
...began soon after college with disgust at McCarthyism. By the early 1960s, having spent a decade studying international relations, Lee began to build his case against United States foreign policy. By the Vietnam War, he was a self-described radical...
...terms of people's ability to express ideas, this is racial McCarthyism. Everyone is afraid of being labeled a racist," Horowitz said...