Witch Hunts

[MrDawn]

What are your thoughts about witch hunts? Do you think they are justified?

For example, when someone has allegedly done or has been known to do something bad. They end up attracting a group of people who want to punish them.

 

[DrLeftover]

Totally innocent people end up burned at the stake.

Or, in modern times, have their careers ruined:

to wit

June 9, 1954: The Army-McCarthy Hearings Climax With a Lawyer’s Pointed Question

"These hearings can in no sense be interpreted as weakening the hold of McCarthyism, or anti-democracy, in the United States."

www.thenation.com

More:

Senator Joseph R. McCarthy was a little-known junior senator from Wisconsin until February 1950 when he claimed to possess a list of 205 card-carrying Communists employed in the U.S. Department of State. From that moment Senator McCarthy became a tireless crusader against Communism in the early 1950s...

McCarthyism / The "Red Scare" | Eisenhower Presidential Library

www.eisenhowerlibrary.gov