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Originally Posted by Xenophon
And nothing anyone has said in this thread comes close to being even a pale shadow of those things.
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And I didnt want to compare wodin (or anyone else) to McCarthy or accuse him (or anyone else) of doing said stuff. Believe me - as a German I know what it means to be compared or judged (with regard) to historical persons.
In the following replace commun with social wherever you like.
I just wanted to state that somehow the spirit of the McCarthy era (seeing communism everywhere, denouncing or objecting people "because they are communists", (without knowing what it really means), etc) is still alive somehow. Stuff or persons get "denoted" as socialists - simply because "socialism" is (still!) some kind of a "no go area" (traditional enemy?).
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But it's what springs to mind for most Americans (or so I think), far more than does "misuse" of the term socialist.
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Its not the "misuse" of the term - its the denoting character of its usage: Ideas or people get rejected simply because they are "socialistic" - and so far I fail to understand the reasoning behind.