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Deminpenn

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2. Similar things happened during the Red Scare of the 1940s and 1950s

Reply to Omaha Steve (Original post)

Fri Sep 12, 2025, 08:57 AM

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All one needed to have happened is an inference that you were a communist or had friends that were members of the communist party or just happened to have an unwitting interaction with someone who was thought to be a communist. You were out of a job, blacklisted, shunned by friends and family.

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