Complicity Is Not Cost-Free
November, 1989
If we learned one thing from the Fifties, it was this: Senator Joseph McCarthy loomed as the largest villain, but he was not the only one. McCarthyism existed in part because the silent majority denied the danger posed by one man who saw evil everywhere.The Reverend Donald Wildmon is the new McCarthy and tacitly supporting his boycotts--which target everything Wildmon thinks is evil--creates a similar shameful silence.The press has played its part in this conspiracy of silence (The Playboy Forum...