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Hazel-rah's avatar

It would be nice to think that the campus authoritarians are being embarrassed to their senses, but the human capacity for hypocrisy is unlimited, alas.

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Constantine Markides's avatar

Look forward to reading your Atlantic piece. And of course this McCarthyism 2.0 is coming not from right to left like in the 50s but left to right (although since October 7 everyone has got in on the censorship action.) We're very much in the Upside Down. I wrote a fairy tale / poem about this when I first launched my substack two months ago. Here's a relevant excerpt:

"[...]is not odd that the dissenters

of the Cold War

hysteria, the critics of this

McCarthyism Red Scare 2.0 are now

identified

named, shamed and defamed

as being right.

right not as in righteous

nor as in might makes right

(for in the Upside Down

might makes left)

but right as in

Putinite.”

The full story for anyone interested is at: https://www.mostlymyth.com/p/rip-van-winkle

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