"I'm not aware of such a rapid mass firing of academics inthe McCarthy era. Wow, Velshi exclaimed. So, I think to some extent this is much worse than the McCarthy era, Stanley said. We've hadcountless people fired across countless industries. We had The Washington Post fire Karen Attiah, their only Black columnist, opinion columnists, remaining, for utterly innocuous posts claiming it was over Charlie Kirk."
"And I think that they're throwing everything at this. This is more than McCarthy. What this is, it's an attempt to invoke the Insurrection Act, as you said. So, what they're trying to do, there's two historical antecedents to pay attention to hereAnd the first is the Reichstag fire, whenallegedly a communist burned down the German Reichstag and Hitlerflooded the streets withhis sort of official thugs, which is sort of equivalent to, analogous to, what it looks like is happening with ICE."
American democracy is currently described as under greater siege than during the McCarthy era. Rapid mass firings of academics over posts about Charlie Kirk and widespread terminations across industries are presented as evidence. The Washington Post firing of Karen Attiah, identified as their only Black opinion columnist, is cited as an example of targeting based on political expression. Attempts to invoke the Insurrection Act and ICE-like street intimidation are characterized as tactics. Historical parallels cited include the Reichstag fire leading to the Enabling Act and Kristallnacht as antecedents illustrating how intimidation and emergency measures can enable seizure of power.
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