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Not in the United States. In the United States, it has historically been "racists" who were the perpetrators of various sorts of legal and extralegal repression. Of course, that is because Marxists have never been in power in the US, but that is the nature of historical contingency, and the current relative social acceptance of the two is a historically contingent fact.
It is actually an open question whether CA law applied to Damore. The CA Labor Code does not refer explicitly to political beliefs, but rather to political activiities and actions
The law has been interpreted broadly, but I don't know that it has been applied to criticisms of internal company policy. Note that, in the analogous case of the free speech rights of public employee, the Supreme Court has held that criticism of internal policy is not protected speech. Of course, the federal jurisprudence on public employee free speech is terrible, so it would not surprise me if CA courts go in a different direction.
Why stop zooming in at the country level? I live in Madison, Wisconsin, which basically didn't even have anyone other than whites until the '50s, more or less precluding it from the era of race terrorism. In contrast, we had violent leftist assholes blowing up buildings and murdering postdocs in the process. Sure, I'll decry historical lynchings with the utmost vigor, but people in my neck of the woods should have more social memory for leftist violence than racist violence. I would suggest that the difference is that people just kind of think the leftists have a point, even if they go too far.
Because, as I understood it, the question was about attitudes at the country level.
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Marxists have never been “in power” but somehow their violence is both forgiven and largely forgotten.
We can see this happening now. The press will be talking about Jan 6 for decades to come, but won’t mention the violence of the preceding summer save for the terrible injustice of the Rittenhouse acquittal.
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Good argument. Thank you.
You're welcome.
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