Well put, but I'm not convinced it has ever been much different. A tendency to take social and political issues beyond the inadequacies of approved ideology has always attracted pejorative labels.
Agreed. Politically motivated people have always shut their opponents up. Either with a sword (Thomas Becket) or the Gulag (Solzhenitsyn). But then later, it developed into ridicule and discrediting (as per Saul Alinsky's "Rules for Radicals") so that people would not be taken seriously thereafter; they are still alive, but effectively politically neutralised. I think what is happening today is a change of tactic based on the internet. People are removed from jobs and from platforms by means of internet searches into their murky pasts, and through twitter pile-ons. Look at the continued attempts to get rid of Suella Braverman, and the problems Boris continues to face over Partygate. And with Trump, it has been relentless.
Sam - the relentless nature of it is disturbing because without media bias it would at most be intemperate debate. Now we have a situation where Johnson and Braverman are continually hounded as Trump always was and media bias is the enabler.
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Agreed. Politically motivated people have always shut their opponents up. Either with a sword (Thomas Becket) or the Gulag (Solzhenitsyn). But then later, it developed into ridicule and discrediting (as per Saul Alinsky's "Rules for Radicals") so that people would not be taken seriously thereafter; they are still alive, but effectively politically neutralised. I think what is happening today is a change of tactic based on the internet. People are removed from jobs and from platforms by means of internet searches into their murky pasts, and through twitter pile-ons. Look at the continued attempts to get rid of Suella Braverman, and the problems Boris continues to face over Partygate. And with Trump, it has been relentless.
Sam - the relentless nature of it is disturbing because without media bias it would at most be intemperate debate. Now we have a situation where Johnson and Braverman are continually hounded as Trump always was and media bias is the enabler.
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