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I’m curious as to what it will take to stop this Witch Hunt of the 21st century. During the Salem Witch Hunts a woman only had to be accused of being a witch in order to destroy her life and those of the people she loved. Several people were tried; 19 women were hung. Most of us are familiar with the details and stories. It was a shameful time in our history. Today, we have people being falsely accused of egregious sins by the liberal left. The result is that the accused people lose their livelihoods, receive harassing texts and phone calls, and endure stress and social shaming. Thankfully we don’t hang the accused, but the loss of income, the social shaming, and the animosity from this hunt is destroying the lives of people whose only sin is to question the liberal dogma, make a bad joke, or simply being in the wrong place at the wrong time.\u00a0 \u00a0<\/p>\n
In the last few weeks, as of this writing, we have seen a professional soccer player lose his job because of message his wife tweeted, a college coach forced to apologize over a shirt he wore bearing a conservative news network logo, google has de-funded conservative websites spearheaded by an effort from NBC who decided to actively attack a competitor for articles that NBC didn’t like (using the pretext of the comments section as fodder) And on and on it goes. I am reminded of the McCarthy hearings from the 1950’s when all you had to do to hurt your enemy was accuse them of being a communist. The accusation was all it took to destroy people\u2019s lives.<\/p>\n
I guess at this point I am curious about a few things.<\/p>\n
It is my hope that someday soon we, as a society, will reach a tipping point much like we did with the McCarthy era.\u00a0 We will say \u201cEnough\u201d and resume some semblance of sanity while assuming humility over the embarrassing behavior.\u00a0 In times like this it becomes easier to see how the Salem trials and the McCarthy era evolved.\u00a0 Eventually those chapters in our history ended as will this one. My hope is that it is sooner rather than later, and that when it is over most of us can claim that we did not participate, that we did not destroy peoples\u2019 lives, threaten then with harm, or encourage the furthering of hatred.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
I’m curious as to what it will take to stop this Witch Hunt of the 21st century. During the Salem Witch Hunts a woman only had to be accused of being a witch in order to destroy her life and those of the people she loved. Several people were tried; 19 women were hung. Most of us are familiar with the details and stories. It was a shameful time in our history. Today, we have people being falsely accused of egregious sins by the liberal left. The result is that the accused people lose their livelihoods, receive harassing texts and phone calls, and endure stress and social shaming. Thankfully we don’t hang the accused, but the loss of income, the social shaming, and the animosity from this hunt is destroying the lives of people whose only sin is to question the liberal dogma, make a bad joke, or simply being in the wrong place at the wrong time.\u00a0 \u00a0 In the last few weeks, as of this writing, we have seen a professional soccer player lose his job because of message his wife tweeted, a college coach forced to apologize over a shirt he wore bearing a conservative news network logo, google has de-funded conservative websites spearheaded by an effort from NBC who decided to actively attack a competitor for articles that NBC didn’t like (using the pretext of the comments section as fodder) And on and on it goes. I am reminded of the McCarthy hearings from the 1950’s […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[73],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/leocharlestaylor.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5968"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/leocharlestaylor.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/leocharlestaylor.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/leocharlestaylor.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/leocharlestaylor.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5968"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/leocharlestaylor.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5968\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5989,"href":"http:\/\/leocharlestaylor.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5968\/revisions\/5989"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/leocharlestaylor.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5968"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/leocharlestaylor.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5968"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/leocharlestaylor.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5968"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}