With the use of the term "un-American", McCarthyism appears to be alive and well despite the fact that it's 50 years later.
Except instead of "He's a Communist!" the preferred smear is "He's a LIBERAL!" (or the preferred indoctrinated spelling of the various conservative bloggers, which is frankly pathetic, of "lieberal".)
That is perhaps the worst part, that someone can unironically take a term that stands for something good, an ideology that's taught me to be nice to people and allows general progress in society, and twist it as if it were an insult. However, the fierce ones on the left don't help either with terms like "repuglican" or "rethuglican", which I'd quite like them to stop 'cause it's stupid.
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Date: 2012-09-02 02:23 am (UTC)Except instead of "He's a Communist!" the preferred smear is "He's a LIBERAL!" (or the preferred indoctrinated spelling of the various conservative bloggers, which is frankly pathetic, of "lieberal".)
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Date: 2012-09-02 02:33 am (UTC)