[dissent]

You're arguing in favour of OP there.

For most of the past 10 years we've seen the liberal left celebrating this kind of McCarthyism. They normalised it, raised the stakes, and now it's being leveraged by the traditional actors who've always wanted to. Liberal elites should have been a bulwark against this, but they were not.

[defrost]

You're mistaken in your strawmanning of my position.

I'm against the dull left V right shallow simplemindedness dominant in US forums.

I reject the notion that "ostracism mechanisms", especially in a Hollywood context, were recently "pioneered by the left".

I read comments that blather on about "liberal left", "deplorables", et al. and despair for political sanity in the US.

It's an interesting emergance of iterative dynamics that the ancient rules of elections in middle north America resulted in a Hotelling's law two party system, neither broadly representative of US citizens, when those rules were founded by people opposed to party politics who sought robust debate of a multitude of views.