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witch-hunt |
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witch-hunt a rigorous campaign to round up or expose dissenters on the pretext of safeguarding the welfare of the public How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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In his book Freedom Is as Freedom Does: Civil Liberties in America (first published in 1956), Corliss gives detailed descriptions of the abuses of the House Un-American Activities Committee (HUAC) and of the intimidating excesses of the McCarthy days, which he describes as the mid-century American witchhunt. Siegel spoke with the victims, perpetrators and witnesses of the murderous witchhunts in Banyuwangi and studied their words with the care of a philologist. By casting the HUAC hearings as a witchhunt and themselves as innocent victims, the ideology itself has been given a pass as the designated victim of "cruel reactionaries. |
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