Comment by EchoReflection

regarding the idea that the horrors of Mao's China, Stalin's Russia, or Pol Pot's Cambodia are not possible in a "free" country like the USA:

"There always is this fallacious belief: 'It would not be the same here; here such things are impossible.' Alas, all the evil of the twentieth century is possible everywhere on earth." -Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

The emergence and popularity of "woke" ideology and DEI is the beginning of this sad, disturbing, cruel, potentially deadly trend.