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...todefeat the all-powerful supernatural. A centralissue to address, then, is the need for people tocontrol these supernatural forces of witchcraft.Did the people they targeted as witches haveunnatural control over their surroundings? In mostcases in colonial America, the accused witches didnot have excessive personal or social power.However, their victims, as well as the hystericalcommunity, perceived them as having some level ofcontrol that both the victims and the communitylacked. The late 17th century witch-hunt at Salem,Massachusetts, provides an example of thishalf-real, half-illusary struggle for controlbetween the "witches" and the community. The verybelief in witchcraft itself became...
...witch-hunt is required to make scoundrels of the student heroes, then a campaign of glorification is required to make heroes of the army scoundrels. Over and over, Chinese television replays shots of soldiers cleaning the streets and distributing food supplies. China's leaders troop through the hospitals visiting wounded soldiers. "You have done an excellent job," an official tells troops in Beijing...
Race relations or not, the Thernstrom case still contains a threat to academic freedom. However Thernstrom is not the victim of a witch-hunt by crusading students, as The Salient would have it. Rather, the problem lies in the breakdown of communication between students and faculty, which prevents the community from coming to a common understanding of what can and cannot be accepted in academic discourse...
...terms, and found himself not guilty. But he never stepped outside of those terms, never attempted to understand the source of the complaint. Instead he has turned the whole situation full circle, proclaimed himself victim, and resorted to childish name-calling and irrational comparisons. "McCarthyism of the left" and "witch-hunt" are more than a little extreme. The complaint is not an attempt to spitefully purge society of outsiders, nor is it xenophobia, nor is it fear of something unseen. This is not politics--this is personal; it is his proclamations about Black life that I find incomplete and therefore...
That Judge Flannery chose to base his decision on fan mail rather than the criminal facts of the case, is no excuse to conduct a witch-hunt on Washburn supporters. Surely the Crimson is aware that it is common practice to write a judge in support of one's associates in trouble. The judges trying the insider trading cases on Wall Street are deluged with letters describing "pillars of the community," "major benefactors to innumerable worthy cause" etc. They've heard it all before. Such loyal support does not and should never be meant to excuse criminal behavior...