[wakawaka28]

First of all, the Red Scare had some well-known innocent casualties. But it was a legitimate response to wannabe revolutionary/authoritarian forces operating in the US. Lenin's tactics, which many communists subscribe to, are violent and toxic, and communism is at odds with the basic principles that make our society successful. Compared to the tremendous political persecution typically ommitted by various communist regimes, the Red Scare was nothing.

Second of all, what we see now is more like Mao's China. People who disagree with the woke agenda are targetted for harassement and violence. Too many of the woke don't want their detractors simply chastised or fired, they want them dead or exiled.

The big difference between "moral panics" of the past and this stuff is that the so-called victims are the ones moralizing and attacking everyone who disagrees, calling normies "ultra far-right extremists" or whatever scary sounding names they can muster. Am I attacking them by calling them out or moralizing? That's for you to decide. But it doesn't matter. I won't be gaslit into thinking that their hostile actions are simply misunderstood. I see it as a power grab and I'm not having it.