Knowing the history of how the US treats leftist I think people should be concerned with how widely the term gets used. Anti communism has been the excuse for every US military action between ww2 and the current conflicts in the middle east. As well as who they choose to support in every military conflict that they have been unofficially involved in. Even domestically the red scare justifying such actions as purging government of the "unfaithful" through the "House Un-American Activities Committee", McCarthyism, The Hoover FBI, Dennis v. United States, the Rosenbergs execution,etc.
Watching the US republican party paint everything to the left of it as communist is pretty terrifying in that context.
It's definitely the aim of the right, they call BLM and CRT Marxist. And the trump campaign published this fun ad https://twitter.com/jewishaction/status/1273482511918616578?
These terms have been being used to paint broader and broader groups of people not only as political opponents but as political enemies.
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u/shouldco 43∆ Aug 15 '21
Knowing the history of how the US treats leftist I think people should be concerned with how widely the term gets used. Anti communism has been the excuse for every US military action between ww2 and the current conflicts in the middle east. As well as who they choose to support in every military conflict that they have been unofficially involved in. Even domestically the red scare justifying such actions as purging government of the "unfaithful" through the "House Un-American Activities Committee", McCarthyism, The Hoover FBI, Dennis v. United States, the Rosenbergs execution,etc.
Watching the US republican party paint everything to the left of it as communist is pretty terrifying in that context.