Cory Booker: “Our history has dark chapters like McCarthyism, where people…”

“And then the people like me or any other journalist out there is going to get silenced or pushed off platforms in other ways. I mean, this. This is what history has told us. Our history has dark chapters like McCarthyism, where people try to use patriotism as a sword, actually, to cut off freedom, to cut off free speech, to cut off freedom of the press. It became a partnership between the government and the Hollywood industry to suppress people, to fire people, to blacklist people. It's structural conditions that made that era censorship possible.” (07:22–07:36)

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