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witch-hunt

Persecution of minority political opponents or socially nonconformist groups without any regard for their guilt or innocence. Witch-hunts are often accompanied by a degree of public hysteria; for example, the McCarthy anticommunist hearings during the 1950s in the USA.
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Salem" examines the most famous case of witch hunting in the U.
IN OTHER WORDS by The Santa Fe New Mexican (Santa Fe, NM)
He does not recant any of his earlier major contentions--the number of executed, that state-building and rebellion has little to do with witch hunting, that their purpose was not to discipline people, and so on--though in some cases he has tried to argue his case more clearly.
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