Two Minute hates are not new: Getting mobs upset to kill someone is easy. It worked to kill the Gracci brothers and Socrates. Mobs would attack witches, often local abortionists but sometimes just nasty old ladies, and of course, don't forget all those "spontaneous" pogroms.
And the "witch hunt" analogy might be something to remember: because in the Middle Ages, a lot of the "witch" hysteria was just that: hysteria and scapegoating of people they dislike.
to stop the over reaction, the church instituted a court system to actually examine the evidence before the person was convicted...
and unlike the "show trials" under Stalin, the dirty little secret is that most of them were released, not convicted.
See: You tube post of a lecture series on the Inquisition:
and here is Professor Teofilo Ruiz lecture series about medieval terror and the inquisition. LINK
one little known fact is that most of the accused were not convicted.
short Version on BBC:
FINEST KIND CLINIC AND FISHMARKET.... Discussing medicine, culture, and the joys of cooking Pansit.
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