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Quote by: underbear1 You seem to have missed the History lesson of the McCarthy era as you tip toe back thru time to FDR. Calling folks unamerican and traitors was his specialty.
Joseph Raymond McCarthy (November 14, 1908–May 2, 1957) was a Republican Senator from the U.S. state of Wisconsin between 1947 and 1957.
During his ten years in the Senate, McCarthy and his staff gained notoriety for making "freewheeling"[1] accusations of membership in the communist party or of communist sympathies. These accusations were largely directed towards people in the U.S. government, particularly employees of the State Department, but included many others as well.
As a result, the term McCarthyism was coined to describe the anti-communist movement that existed in America from 1950 to about 1956, a time which has been labeled "The Second Red Scare" (the first being 1917-1920).
During this period, people from all walks of life were suspected of being Soviet spies or communist sympathizers and were brought before Congressional inquiries. These inquiries later came to be referred to as "witch hunts" by those who opposed them. To this day, dictionary definitions of "McCarthyism" include "the practice of publicizing accusations of political disloyalty or subversion with insufficient regard to evidence" and "the use of unfair investigatory or accusatory methods in order to suppress opposition."[ |
What a nonsensical argument. McCarthy called people unamerican, so no one else can ever be called unamerican? That's a good thought control argument, which I'd expect from the left. BTW, you're conveniently forgetting that your hero RFK, got his start as counsel on a Senate committee investigating "unamerican activities."