The modern man uses the term “witch hunt” as a euphemism for injustice and hysteria because he thinks witches an absurd superstition. The modern man does not believe any “hunt” could ever turn up a witch.
For all their faults, the people of Salem gave trials to those accused of witchcraft. Those accused of the modern equivalent of witchcraft receive no such luxury.
There are still faint glimmers of civilization left in this barbaric slaughterhouse that was once known as humanity. 