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If you think cancel culture is bad now, you'd have hated living in the United States in the 1950s, when Congress was actually throwing people in prison for thinking the wrong way. A lot of people got their livelihoods destroyed by the House Un-American Activities Committee, and a disproportionately large number of the people destroyed were Jewish. You also wouldn't have liked the 1980s, when the Religious Right was carrying on a less harsh version of the House Un-American Activities Committee with Reagan's blessing.