Man I wish North Americans were as scared of fascism and genocide as they are communism.
All forms of extremism are bad.
Cool. Now, let’s start getting into whether communism is “extremism” or not, rather than just begging the question.
Any talk of communism is a “red” herring when it comes to this topic. Russia isn’t in any way officially, notionally, or superficially communist.
I didn’t realize that was even open for debate…
Oh false equivalency, I wondered if you’d rear your stupid head here.
How is that a false equivalency?
I think that conflating concern about Putin’s influence with McCarthyism is a bit of a stretch.
It honestly reads like the author dismisses the potential of foreign influence affecting both domestic actors and politics outright without proof. There’s ample evidence that Russian state-affiliated actors have worked with social media influencers to foment outrage, for example. That’s not a “new red scare”, that’s straight up proof of intelligence operations designed to undermine Russia’s geopolitical opponents.
Yeah but the if you like Russia doing this, would not you shill ‘red scare’ too?
Is there any truth to the allegations? Beats me, but seeing the possibility dismissed as as a preposterous notion that can only be part of a “New Red Scare” does not decrease my estimation of the chances of it.
