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Exactly which behaviours seen during that scandal do you think should have been illegal or were borderline illegal?

Not a single one. Now I'm also wondering what you're seeing.

Bear in mind that I draw a strong distinction between "undesirable" and "should probably be illegal".

Great, because that's what the opposition to the witchhunt has consistently been: Not that the majority of the witchhunt activities have been technically illegal, but that the acts themselves are undesirable in a community of differing views.

The precedence set by what happened to Eich because of his bigoted views (again, legal or not) should be sending panic through the progressive communities. But instead it's the opposite, people claiming that hunting this witch is OK because look, he's actually a witch.

And it's usually the same kind of people who will trot out the quote about "First they came for the Jews, ..." who are hypocritically clawing down the door to catch this particular member of the untermensch.

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