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The fact that the mere accusation alone is apparently enough to "convict" a man, and thus ruin his reputation, career, relationships, and life is far more than enough to label Me Too! and identical movements Witch Hunts.

With these disgustingly sexist movements, the so-called "bravery" of the accuser (who can even be anonymous!) is all that's required. Actual evidence of such crimes, testimony, presumption of innocence, and the right for the accused to defend themselves are not needed nor wanted. Just the woman's say-so.

...Society is abhorrently misandristic these days...men are the default domestic abuser, the default pedophile, the default rapist, the default criminal in general. Most suicides are done by men, and most homicide victims and homeless people are men. The sex most likely to be imprisoned, and to get longer sentences, is male. I despise modern society...

Robin Adams: Moved this Conversation In The Main Page to here:

• The fear that you could be reported—often falsely—for subversive behavior by anyone, including your fellow workers, and sent off to a work camp or killed was one of the keys to Stalin's power in the Soviet Union.
  • Which kind of explains the Red Scare. Was it all that unreasonable to take a dim view of people who wanted to replicate a system that had cost millions of Russians their lives in the United States?
    • Is it unreasonable to be anti-communist? Of course not. Was it unreasonable to go to extreme lengths to "root out" communists not only in a country where the threat of communist takeover was minute (communism tended to only have mass appeal in politically-backward, extremely poor countries) but to do so in a way that rather stretched the definition of what a communist actually was? Of course it was.

The irony is that, in the name of fighting Communism, Mc Carthyism replicated one of its worst features: a state where everyone lived in fear of being falsely reported for subversive, Anti-Revolutionary / Anti-American activities. It never reached the same scale in America as in Russia, and the punishments meted out were not as inhumane, but the parallels are still striking.