Joseph McCarthy

[daws101]

Funny how all TODAY'S SUBVERSIVES, especially the ONES ON THIS FORUM, take offense to a patriot that really had nailed their commie asses back in the early 50's!

He was no Patriot he suffered from the same paranoia "modern"republicans suffer from.

But scum like you are STILL the Commie bastards he was talking about!

Since I'm not a commie you've just proven my point!

What do your muslim brothers call it what you post...Taqiyya

Not a Muslim either, you must enjoy being wrong as you are so often.

 

[Vigilante]

Funny how all TODAY'S SUBVERSIVES, especially the ONES ON THIS FORUM, take offense to a patriot that really had nailed their commie asses back in the early 50's!

He was no Patriot he suffered from the same paranoia "modern"republicans suffer from.

But scum like you are STILL the Commie bastards he was talking about!

Since I'm not a commie you've just proven my point!

What do your muslim brothers call it what you post...Taqiyya

Not a Muslim either, you must enjoy being wrong as you are so often.

Yes, you are well taught in the art of Taqiyya!
Taqiyya
Taqiyya

 

[daws101]

He was no Patriot he suffered from the same paranoia "modern"republicans suffer from.

But scum like you are STILL the Commie bastards he was talking about!

Since I'm not a commie you've just proven my point!

What do your muslim brothers call it what you post...Taqiyya

Not a Muslim either, you must enjoy being wrong as you are so often.

Yes, you are well taught in the art of Taqiyya!
Taqiyya
Taqiyya

Thanks again for proving my point.

 

[daws101]

Definitions for TaqiyyaIn Islam taqiyya تقية is a form of religious dissimulation or a legal dispensation whereby a believing individual can deny his faith or commit otherwise illegal or blasphemous acts while they are at risk of significant persecution This practice was emphasized in Shi'a Islam whereby adherents may conceal their religion when they are under threat persecution or compulsion Taqiyya was developed to protect Shi'ites who were usually in minority and under pressure In the Shi'a view taqiyya is lawful in situations where there is overwhelming danger of loss of life or property and where no danger to religion would occur thereby The term taqiyya does not exist in Sunni jurisprudence In the Sunni view denying faith under duress is "only at most permitted and not under all circumstances obligatory" However there are examples of practicing taqiyya among Sunnis where it was necessary

you might want to know what a word means before you use it .

 

[Billy_Kinetta]

Definitions for TaqiyyaIn Islam taqiyya تقية is a form of religious dissimulation or a legal dispensation whereby a believing individual can deny his faith or commit otherwise illegal or blasphemous acts while they are at risk of significant persecution This practice was emphasized in Shi'a Islam whereby adherents may conceal their religion when they are under threat persecution or compulsion Taqiyya was developed to protect Shi'ites who were usually in minority and under pressure In the Shi'a view taqiyya is lawful in situations where there is overwhelming danger of loss of life or property and where no danger to religion would occur thereby The term taqiyya does not exist in Sunni jurisprudence In the Sunni view denying faith under duress is "only at most permitted and not under all circumstances obligatory" However there are examples of practicing taqiyya among Sunnis where it was necessary

you might want to know what a word means before you use it .

Taqiyya is also permitted in the furtherance of jihad.

 

[daws101]

Definitions for TaqiyyaIn Islam taqiyya تقية is a form of religious dissimulation or a legal dispensation whereby a believing individual can deny his faith or commit otherwise illegal or blasphemous acts while they are at risk of significant persecution This practice was emphasized in Shi'a Islam whereby adherents may conceal their religion when they are under threat persecution or compulsion Taqiyya was developed to protect Shi'ites who were usually in minority and under pressure In the Shi'a view taqiyya is lawful in situations where there is overwhelming danger of loss of life or property and where no danger to religion would occur thereby The term taqiyya does not exist in Sunni jurisprudence In the Sunni view denying faith under duress is "only at most permitted and not under all circumstances obligatory" However there are examples of practicing taqiyya among Sunnis where it was necessary

you might want to know what a word means before you use it .

Taqiyya is also permitted in the furtherance of jihad.

if that what you and your butt buddy vagnial auntie believe that I am some how connected with that ,besides being hilariously false, it proves yet again my point about conservative paranoia.

 

[Billy_Kinetta]

Definitions for TaqiyyaIn Islam taqiyya تقية is a form of religious dissimulation or a legal dispensation whereby a believing individual can deny his faith or commit otherwise illegal or blasphemous acts while they are at risk of significant persecution This practice was emphasized in Shi'a Islam whereby adherents may conceal their religion when they are under threat persecution or compulsion Taqiyya was developed to protect Shi'ites who were usually in minority and under pressure In the Shi'a view taqiyya is lawful in situations where there is overwhelming danger of loss of life or property and where no danger to religion would occur thereby The term taqiyya does not exist in Sunni jurisprudence In the Sunni view denying faith under duress is "only at most permitted and not under all circumstances obligatory" However there are examples of practicing taqiyya among Sunnis where it was necessary

you might want to know what a word means before you use it .

Taqiyya is also permitted in the furtherance of jihad.

if that what you and your butt buddy vagnial auntie believe that I am some how connected with that ,besides being hilariously false, it proves yet again my point about conservative paranoia.

I don't believe you are connected with anything, most particularly intelligence and scholarship.

 

[daws101]

Definitions for TaqiyyaIn Islam taqiyya تقية is a form of religious dissimulation or a legal dispensation whereby a believing individual can deny his faith or commit otherwise illegal or blasphemous acts while they are at risk of significant persecution This practice was emphasized in Shi'a Islam whereby adherents may conceal their religion when they are under threat persecution or compulsion Taqiyya was developed to protect Shi'ites who were usually in minority and under pressure In the Shi'a view taqiyya is lawful in situations where there is overwhelming danger of loss of life or property and where no danger to religion would occur thereby The term taqiyya does not exist in Sunni jurisprudence In the Sunni view denying faith under duress is "only at most permitted and not under all circumstances obligatory" However there are examples of practicing taqiyya among Sunnis where it was necessary

you might want to know what a word means before you use it .

Taqiyya is also permitted in the furtherance of jihad.

if that what you and your butt buddy vagnial auntie believe that I am some how connected with that ,besides being hilariously false, it proves yet again my point about conservative paranoia.

I don't believe you are connected with anything, most particularly intelligence and scholarship.

then as always you'd be absolutely wrong..

 

[Billy_Kinetta]

Definitions for TaqiyyaIn Islam taqiyya تقية is a form of religious dissimulation or a legal dispensation whereby a believing individual can deny his faith or commit otherwise illegal or blasphemous acts while they are at risk of significant persecution This practice was emphasized in Shi'a Islam whereby adherents may conceal their religion when they are under threat persecution or compulsion Taqiyya was developed to protect Shi'ites who were usually in minority and under pressure In the Shi'a view taqiyya is lawful in situations where there is overwhelming danger of loss of life or property and where no danger to religion would occur thereby The term taqiyya does not exist in Sunni jurisprudence In the Sunni view denying faith under duress is "only at most permitted and not under all circumstances obligatory" However there are examples of practicing taqiyya among Sunnis where it was necessary

you might want to know what a word means before you use it .

Taqiyya is also permitted in the furtherance of jihad.

if that what you and your butt buddy vagnial auntie believe that I am some how connected with that ,besides being hilariously false, it proves yet again my point about conservative paranoia.

I don't believe you are connected with anything, most particularly intelligence and scholarship.

then as always you'd be absolutely wrong..

The evidence indicates otherwise.

 

[namvet]

man was dead on about commies in the Gov. he just had no idea they would all be librtard faggots

 

[regent]

man was dead on about commies in the Gov. he just had no idea they would all be librtard faggots

If the creation of the Constitution by the liberals caused all that conservative hatred, the Declaration of Independence with all that stuff about equality and happiness must have caused conservatives even greater nightmares. But not to worry, America just keeps traveling the liberal path.

 

[daws101]

Definitions for TaqiyyaIn Islam taqiyya تقية is a form of religious dissimulation or a legal dispensation whereby a believing individual can deny his faith or commit otherwise illegal or blasphemous acts while they are at risk of significant persecution This practice was emphasized in Shi'a Islam whereby adherents may conceal their religion when they are under threat persecution or compulsion Taqiyya was developed to protect Shi'ites who were usually in minority and under pressure In the Shi'a view taqiyya is lawful in situations where there is overwhelming danger of loss of life or property and where no danger to religion would occur thereby The term taqiyya does not exist in Sunni jurisprudence In the Sunni view denying faith under duress is "only at most permitted and not under all circumstances obligatory" However there are examples of practicing taqiyya among Sunnis where it was necessary

you might want to know what a word means before you use it .

Taqiyya is also permitted in the furtherance of jihad.

if that what you and your butt buddy vagnial auntie believe that I am some how connected with that ,besides being hilariously false, it proves yet again my point about conservative paranoia.

I don't believe you are connected with anything, most particularly intelligence and scholarship.

then as always you'd be absolutely wrong..

The evidence indicates otherwise.

really? bold statement as you have no evidence.

 

[daws101]

McCarthyism - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Victims of McCarthyism[edit]
It is difficult to estimate the number of victims of McCarthyism. The number imprisoned is in the hundreds, and some ten or twelve thousand lost their jobs.[52] In many cases simply being subpoenaed by HUAC or one of the other committees was sufficient cause to be fired.[53] Many of those who were imprisoned, lost their jobs or were questioned by committees did in fact have a past or present connection of some kind with the Communist Party. But for the vast majority, both the potential for them to do harm to the nation and the nature of their communist affiliation were tenuous.[54] After the extremely damaging "Cambridge Five" spy scandal (Burgess, Maclean, Philby, Blunt, et al.), suspected homosexuality was also a common cause for being targeted by McCarthyism. The hunt for "sexual perverts", who were presumed to be subversive by nature, resulted in thousands being harassed and denied employment.[55] Many have termed this aspect of McCarthyism "The Lavender Scare".[56]

Homosexuality was classified as a psychiatric disorder in the 1950s.[57] However, in the context of the highly politicised Cold War environment, homosexuality became framed as a dangerous, contagious social disease that posed a potential threat to state security.[57] As the family was believed to be the cornerstone of American strength and integrity,[58] the stigmatisation of homosexuals as "sexual perverts" meant that they were both unable to function within a family unit and presented the potential to poison the social body.[59] This era also witnessed the establishment of widely spread FBI surveillance intended to identify homosexual government employees.[60]

The McCarthy hearings and according "sexual pervert" investigations can be seen to have been driven by a desire to identify individuals whose ability to function as loyal citizens had been compromised.[59] Joseph McCarthy began his campaign by drawing upon the ways in which he embodied traditional American values in order to become the self-appointed vanguard of social morality.[61] Paradoxically, accusations of alleged homosexual behaviour marked the end of McCarthy’s political career.[62]


Dalton Trumbo and his wife Cleo at the House Un-American Activities Committee in 1947.
In the film industry, more than 300 actors, authors and directors were denied work in the U.S. through the unofficial Hollywood blacklist. Blacklists were at work throughout the entertainment industry, in universities and schools at all levels, in the legal profession, and in many other fields. A port security program initiated by the Coast Guard shortly after the start of the Korean War required a review of every maritime worker who loaded or worked aboard any American ship, regardless of cargo or destination. As with other loyalty-security reviews of McCarthyism, the identities of any accusers and even the nature of any accusations were typically kept secret from the accused. Nearly 3,000 seamen and longshoremen lost their jobs due to this program alone.[63]

Some of the more notable people who were blacklisted or suffered some other persecution during McCarthyism are listed here:

• Nelson Algren, writer[64]
• Lucille Ball, actress, model, and film studio executive.[65]
• Alvah Bessie, Abraham Lincoln Brigade, writer, journalist, screenwriter, Hollywood Ten
• Elmer Bernstein, composer and conductor[66]
• Leonard Bernstein, conductor, pianist, composer[67]
• David Bohm, physicist and philosopher[68]
• Bertolt Brecht, poet, playwright, screenwriter
• Archie Brown, Abraham Lincoln Brigade, WW II vet, union leader, imprisoned. Successfully challenged Landrum-Griffin Act provision[69]
• Esther Brunauer, forced from the U.S. State Department[70]
• Luis Buñuel, film director, producer[71]
• Charlie Chaplin, actor and director[72]
• Aaron Copland, composer[73]
• Bartley Crum, attorney[74]
• Howard Da Silva, actor[75]
• Jules Dassin, director[76]
• Dolores del Río, actress[77]
• Edward Dmytryk, director, Hollywood Ten
• W.E.B. Du Bois, civil rights activist and author[78]
• George A. Eddy, pre-Keynesian Harvard economist, US Treasury monetary policy specialist[79]
• Albert Einstein, Nobel Prize-winning physicist, philosopher, mathematician, activist[80]
• Hanns Eisler, composer[81]
• Howard Fast, writer[82]
• Lion Feuchtwanger, novelist and playwright[83]
• Carl Foreman, writer of High Noon
• John Garfield, actor[73]
• Jack Gilford, actor[75]
• Allen Ginsberg, Beat poet
• Ruth Gordon, actress[75]
• Lee Grant, actress[84]
• Dashiell Hammett, author[73]
• Elizabeth Hawes, clothing designer, author, equal rights activist[85]
• Lillian Hellman, playwright[73]
• Dorothy Healey, union organizer, CPUSA official[86]
• Lena Horne, singer[75]
• Langston Hughes, writer, poet, playwright[73]
• Marsha Hunt, actress
• Sam Jaffe, actor[73]
• Theodore Kaghan, diplomat[87]
• Garson Kanin, writer and director[73]
• Danny Kaye, comedian, singer[88][broken citation]
• Benjamin Keen, historian[89]
• Otto Klemperer, conductor and composer[90]
• Gypsy Rose Lee, actress and stripper[73]
• Cornelius Lanczos, mathematician and physicist[91]
• Ring Lardner Jr., screenwriter, Hollywood Ten
• Arthur Laurents, playwright[75]
• Philip Loeb, actor[92]
• Joseph Losey, director[73]
• Albert Maltz, screenwriter, Hollywood Ten
• Heinrich Mann, novelist[93]
• Klaus Mann, writer[93]
• Thomas Mann, Nobel Prize winning novelist and essayist[93]
• Burgess Meredith, actor[73]
• Arthur Miller, playwright and essayist[73]
• Jessica Mitford, author, muckraker. Refused to testify to HUAC.
• Dimitri Mitropoulos, conductor, pianist, composer[94]
• Zero Mostel, actor[73]
• Joseph Needham, biochemist, sinologist, historian of science
• J. Robert Oppenheimer, physicist, scientific director of the Manhattan Project[95]
• Dorothy Parker, writer, humorist[73]
• Linus Pauling, chemist, Nobel prizes for Chemistry and Peace[96]
• Samuel Reber, diplomat[97]
• Al Richmond, union organizer, editor[98]
• Martin Ritt, actor and director[99]
• Paul Robeson, actor, athlete, singer, writer, political activist[100]
• Edward G. Robinson, actor[73]
• Waldo Salt, screenwriter[101]
• Jean Seberg, actress[102]
• Pete Seeger, folk singer, songwriter[73]
• Artie Shaw, jazz musician, bandleader, author[73]
• Irwin Shaw, writer[75]
• William L. Shirer, journalist, author[103]
• Lionel Stander, actor[104]
• Dirk Jan Struik, mathematician, historian of maths[105]
• Paul Sweezy, economist and founder-editor of Monthly Review[106]
• Charles W. Thayer, diplomat[107]
• Dalton Trumbo screenwriter, Hollywood Ten
• Tsien Hsue-shen, physicist[108]
• Sam Wanamaker, actor, director, responsible for recreating Shakespeare's Globe Theatre in London, England.
• Orson Welles, actor, author, film director[citation needed]
• Gene Weltfish, anthropologist fired from Columbia University[109]

In 1953, Robert K. Murray, a young professor of history at Pennsylvania State University who had served as an intelligence officer in World War II, was revising his dissertation on the Red Scare of 1919–20 for publication until Little, Brown and Company decided that "under the circumstances ... it wasn't wise for them to bring this book out." He learned that investigators were questioning his colleagues and relatives. The University of Minnesota press published his volume, Red Scare: A Study in National Hysteria, 1919–1920, in 1955.[110]

Critical reactions[edit]

 

[Cecilie1200]

McCarthyism - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Victims of McCarthyism[edit]
It is difficult to estimate the number of victims of McCarthyism. The number imprisoned is in the hundreds, and some ten or twelve thousand lost their jobs.[52] In many cases simply being subpoenaed by HUAC or one of the other committees was sufficient cause to be fired.[53] Many of those who were imprisoned, lost their jobs or were questioned by committees did in fact have a past or present connection of some kind with the Communist Party. But for the vast majority, both the potential for them to do harm to the nation and the nature of their communist affiliation were tenuous.[54] After the extremely damaging "Cambridge Five" spy scandal (Burgess, Maclean, Philby, Blunt, et al.), suspected homosexuality was also a common cause for being targeted by McCarthyism. The hunt for "sexual perverts", who were presumed to be subversive by nature, resulted in thousands being harassed and denied employment.[55] Many have termed this aspect of McCarthyism "The Lavender Scare".[56]

Homosexuality was classified as a psychiatric disorder in the 1950s.[57] However, in the context of the highly politicised Cold War environment, homosexuality became framed as a dangerous, contagious social disease that posed a potential threat to state security.[57] As the family was believed to be the cornerstone of American strength and integrity,[58] the stigmatisation of homosexuals as "sexual perverts" meant that they were both unable to function within a family unit and presented the potential to poison the social body.[59] This era also witnessed the establishment of widely spread FBI surveillance intended to identify homosexual government employees.[60]

The McCarthy hearings and according "sexual pervert" investigations can be seen to have been driven by a desire to identify individuals whose ability to function as loyal citizens had been compromised.[59] Joseph McCarthy began his campaign by drawing upon the ways in which he embodied traditional American values in order to become the self-appointed vanguard of social morality.[61] Paradoxically, accusations of alleged homosexual behaviour marked the end of McCarthy’s political career.[62]


Dalton Trumbo and his wife Cleo at the House Un-American Activities Committee in 1947.
In the film industry, more than 300 actors, authors and directors were denied work in the U.S. through the unofficial Hollywood blacklist. Blacklists were at work throughout the entertainment industry, in universities and schools at all levels, in the legal profession, and in many other fields. A port security program initiated by the Coast Guard shortly after the start of the Korean War required a review of every maritime worker who loaded or worked aboard any American ship, regardless of cargo or destination. As with other loyalty-security reviews of McCarthyism, the identities of any accusers and even the nature of any accusations were typically kept secret from the accused. Nearly 3,000 seamen and longshoremen lost their jobs due to this program alone.[63]

Some of the more notable people who were blacklisted or suffered some other persecution during McCarthyism are listed here:

• Nelson Algren, writer[64]
• Lucille Ball, actress, model, and film studio executive.[65]
• Alvah Bessie, Abraham Lincoln Brigade, writer, journalist, screenwriter, Hollywood Ten
• Elmer Bernstein, composer and conductor[66]
• Leonard Bernstein, conductor, pianist, composer[67]
• David Bohm, physicist and philosopher[68]
• Bertolt Brecht, poet, playwright, screenwriter
• Archie Brown, Abraham Lincoln Brigade, WW II vet, union leader, imprisoned. Successfully challenged Landrum-Griffin Act provision[69]
• Esther Brunauer, forced from the U.S. State Department[70]
• Luis Buñuel, film director, producer[71]
• Charlie Chaplin, actor and director[72]
• Aaron Copland, composer[73]
• Bartley Crum, attorney[74]
• Howard Da Silva, actor[75]
• Jules Dassin, director[76]
• Dolores del Río, actress[77]
• Edward Dmytryk, director, Hollywood Ten
• W.E.B. Du Bois, civil rights activist and author[78]
• George A. Eddy, pre-Keynesian Harvard economist, US Treasury monetary policy specialist[79]
• Albert Einstein, Nobel Prize-winning physicist, philosopher, mathematician, activist[80]
• Hanns Eisler, composer[81]
• Howard Fast, writer[82]
• Lion Feuchtwanger, novelist and playwright[83]
• Carl Foreman, writer of High Noon
• John Garfield, actor[73]
• Jack Gilford, actor[75]
• Allen Ginsberg, Beat poet
• Ruth Gordon, actress[75]
• Lee Grant, actress[84]
• Dashiell Hammett, author[73]
• Elizabeth Hawes, clothing designer, author, equal rights activist[85]
• Lillian Hellman, playwright[73]
• Dorothy Healey, union organizer, CPUSA official[86]
• Lena Horne, singer[75]
• Langston Hughes, writer, poet, playwright[73]
• Marsha Hunt, actress
• Sam Jaffe, actor[73]
• Theodore Kaghan, diplomat[87]
• Garson Kanin, writer and director[73]
• Danny Kaye, comedian, singer[88][broken citation]
• Benjamin Keen, historian[89]
• Otto Klemperer, conductor and composer[90]
• Gypsy Rose Lee, actress and stripper[73]
• Cornelius Lanczos, mathematician and physicist[91]
• Ring Lardner Jr., screenwriter, Hollywood Ten
• Arthur Laurents, playwright[75]
• Philip Loeb, actor[92]
• Joseph Losey, director[73]
• Albert Maltz, screenwriter, Hollywood Ten
• Heinrich Mann, novelist[93]
• Klaus Mann, writer[93]
• Thomas Mann, Nobel Prize winning novelist and essayist[93]
• Burgess Meredith, actor[73]
• Arthur Miller, playwright and essayist[73]
• Jessica Mitford, author, muckraker. Refused to testify to HUAC.
• Dimitri Mitropoulos, conductor, pianist, composer[94]
• Zero Mostel, actor[73]
• Joseph Needham, biochemist, sinologist, historian of science
• J. Robert Oppenheimer, physicist, scientific director of the Manhattan Project[95]
• Dorothy Parker, writer, humorist[73]
• Linus Pauling, chemist, Nobel prizes for Chemistry and Peace[96]
• Samuel Reber, diplomat[97]
• Al Richmond, union organizer, editor[98]
• Martin Ritt, actor and director[99]
• Paul Robeson, actor, athlete, singer, writer, political activist[100]
• Edward G. Robinson, actor[73]
• Waldo Salt, screenwriter[101]
• Jean Seberg, actress[102]
• Pete Seeger, folk singer, songwriter[73]
• Artie Shaw, jazz musician, bandleader, author[73]
• Irwin Shaw, writer[75]
• William L. Shirer, journalist, author[103]
• Lionel Stander, actor[104]
• Dirk Jan Struik, mathematician, historian of maths[105]
• Paul Sweezy, economist and founder-editor of Monthly Review[106]
• Charles W. Thayer, diplomat[107]
• Dalton Trumbo screenwriter, Hollywood Ten
• Tsien Hsue-shen, physicist[108]
• Sam Wanamaker, actor, director, responsible for recreating Shakespeare's Globe Theatre in London, England.
• Orson Welles, actor, author, film director[citation needed]
• Gene Weltfish, anthropologist fired from Columbia University[109]

In 1953, Robert K. Murray, a young professor of history at Pennsylvania State University who had served as an intelligence officer in World War II, was revising his dissertation on the Red Scare of 1919–20 for publication until Little, Brown and Company decided that "under the circumstances ... it wasn't wise for them to bring this book out." He learned that investigators were questioning his colleagues and relatives. The University of Minnesota press published his volume, Red Scare: A Study in National Hysteria, 1919–1920, in 1955.[110]

Critical reactions[edit]

What a classic example of why I laugh at anyone who thinks Wikipedia is a "source".

 

[namvet]

man was dead on about commies in the Gov. he just had no idea they would all be librtard faggots

If the creation of the Constitution by the liberals caused all that conservative hatred, the Declaration of Independence with all that stuff about equality and happiness must have caused conservatives even greater nightmares. But not to worry, America just keeps traveling the liberal path.

right there

 

[daws101]

McCarthyism - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Victims of McCarthyism[edit]
It is difficult to estimate the number of victims of McCarthyism. The number imprisoned is in the hundreds, and some ten or twelve thousand lost their jobs.[52] In many cases simply being subpoenaed by HUAC or one of the other committees was sufficient cause to be fired.[53] Many of those who were imprisoned, lost their jobs or were questioned by committees did in fact have a past or present connection of some kind with the Communist Party. But for the vast majority, both the potential for them to do harm to the nation and the nature of their communist affiliation were tenuous.[54] After the extremely damaging "Cambridge Five" spy scandal (Burgess, Maclean, Philby, Blunt, et al.), suspected homosexuality was also a common cause for being targeted by McCarthyism. The hunt for "sexual perverts", who were presumed to be subversive by nature, resulted in thousands being harassed and denied employment.[55] Many have termed this aspect of McCarthyism "The Lavender Scare".[56]

Homosexuality was classified as a psychiatric disorder in the 1950s.[57] However, in the context of the highly politicised Cold War environment, homosexuality became framed as a dangerous, contagious social disease that posed a potential threat to state security.[57] As the family was believed to be the cornerstone of American strength and integrity,[58] the stigmatisation of homosexuals as "sexual perverts" meant that they were both unable to function within a family unit and presented the potential to poison the social body.[59] This era also witnessed the establishment of widely spread FBI surveillance intended to identify homosexual government employees.[60]

The McCarthy hearings and according "sexual pervert" investigations can be seen to have been driven by a desire to identify individuals whose ability to function as loyal citizens had been compromised.[59] Joseph McCarthy began his campaign by drawing upon the ways in which he embodied traditional American values in order to become the self-appointed vanguard of social morality.[61] Paradoxically, accusations of alleged homosexual behaviour marked the end of McCarthy’s political career.[62]


Dalton Trumbo and his wife Cleo at the House Un-American Activities Committee in 1947.
In the film industry, more than 300 actors, authors and directors were denied work in the U.S. through the unofficial Hollywood blacklist. Blacklists were at work throughout the entertainment industry, in universities and schools at all levels, in the legal profession, and in many other fields. A port security program initiated by the Coast Guard shortly after the start of the Korean War required a review of every maritime worker who loaded or worked aboard any American ship, regardless of cargo or destination. As with other loyalty-security reviews of McCarthyism, the identities of any accusers and even the nature of any accusations were typically kept secret from the accused. Nearly 3,000 seamen and longshoremen lost their jobs due to this program alone.[63]

Some of the more notable people who were blacklisted or suffered some other persecution during McCarthyism are listed here:

• Nelson Algren, writer[64]
• Lucille Ball, actress, model, and film studio executive.[65]
• Alvah Bessie, Abraham Lincoln Brigade, writer, journalist, screenwriter, Hollywood Ten
• Elmer Bernstein, composer and conductor[66]
• Leonard Bernstein, conductor, pianist, composer[67]
• David Bohm, physicist and philosopher[68]
• Bertolt Brecht, poet, playwright, screenwriter
• Archie Brown, Abraham Lincoln Brigade, WW II vet, union leader, imprisoned. Successfully challenged Landrum-Griffin Act provision[69]
• Esther Brunauer, forced from the U.S. State Department[70]
• Luis Buñuel, film director, producer[71]
• Charlie Chaplin, actor and director[72]
• Aaron Copland, composer[73]
• Bartley Crum, attorney[74]
• Howard Da Silva, actor[75]
• Jules Dassin, director[76]
• Dolores del Río, actress[77]
• Edward Dmytryk, director, Hollywood Ten
• W.E.B. Du Bois, civil rights activist and author[78]
• George A. Eddy, pre-Keynesian Harvard economist, US Treasury monetary policy specialist[79]
• Albert Einstein, Nobel Prize-winning physicist, philosopher, mathematician, activist[80]
• Hanns Eisler, composer[81]
• Howard Fast, writer[82]
• Lion Feuchtwanger, novelist and playwright[83]
• Carl Foreman, writer of High Noon
• John Garfield, actor[73]
• Jack Gilford, actor[75]
• Allen Ginsberg, Beat poet
• Ruth Gordon, actress[75]
• Lee Grant, actress[84]
• Dashiell Hammett, author[73]
• Elizabeth Hawes, clothing designer, author, equal rights activist[85]
• Lillian Hellman, playwright[73]
• Dorothy Healey, union organizer, CPUSA official[86]
• Lena Horne, singer[75]
• Langston Hughes, writer, poet, playwright[73]
• Marsha Hunt, actress
• Sam Jaffe, actor[73]
• Theodore Kaghan, diplomat[87]
• Garson Kanin, writer and director[73]
• Danny Kaye, comedian, singer[88][broken citation]
• Benjamin Keen, historian[89]
• Otto Klemperer, conductor and composer[90]
• Gypsy Rose Lee, actress and stripper[73]
• Cornelius Lanczos, mathematician and physicist[91]
• Ring Lardner Jr., screenwriter, Hollywood Ten
• Arthur Laurents, playwright[75]
• Philip Loeb, actor[92]
• Joseph Losey, director[73]
• Albert Maltz, screenwriter, Hollywood Ten
• Heinrich Mann, novelist[93]
• Klaus Mann, writer[93]
• Thomas Mann, Nobel Prize winning novelist and essayist[93]
• Burgess Meredith, actor[73]
• Arthur Miller, playwright and essayist[73]
• Jessica Mitford, author, muckraker. Refused to testify to HUAC.
• Dimitri Mitropoulos, conductor, pianist, composer[94]
• Zero Mostel, actor[73]
• Joseph Needham, biochemist, sinologist, historian of science
• J. Robert Oppenheimer, physicist, scientific director of the Manhattan Project[95]
• Dorothy Parker, writer, humorist[73]
• Linus Pauling, chemist, Nobel prizes for Chemistry and Peace[96]
• Samuel Reber, diplomat[97]
• Al Richmond, union organizer, editor[98]
• Martin Ritt, actor and director[99]
• Paul Robeson, actor, athlete, singer, writer, political activist[100]
• Edward G. Robinson, actor[73]
• Waldo Salt, screenwriter[101]
• Jean Seberg, actress[102]
• Pete Seeger, folk singer, songwriter[73]
• Artie Shaw, jazz musician, bandleader, author[73]
• Irwin Shaw, writer[75]
• William L. Shirer, journalist, author[103]
• Lionel Stander, actor[104]
• Dirk Jan Struik, mathematician, historian of maths[105]
• Paul Sweezy, economist and founder-editor of Monthly Review[106]
• Charles W. Thayer, diplomat[107]
• Dalton Trumbo screenwriter, Hollywood Ten
• Tsien Hsue-shen, physicist[108]
• Sam Wanamaker, actor, director, responsible for recreating Shakespeare's Globe Theatre in London, England.
• Orson Welles, actor, author, film director[citation needed]
• Gene Weltfish, anthropologist fired from Columbia University[109]

In 1953, Robert K. Murray, a young professor of history at Pennsylvania State University who had served as an intelligence officer in World War II, was revising his dissertation on the Red Scare of 1919–20 for publication until Little, Brown and Company decided that "under the circumstances ... it wasn't wise for them to bring this book out." He learned that investigators were questioning his colleagues and relatives. The University of Minnesota press published his volume, Red Scare: A Study in National Hysteria, 1919–1920, in 1955.[110]

Critical reactions[edit]

What a classic example of why I laugh at anyone who thinks Wikipedia is a "source".

more proof you are ignorant.

 

[Cecilie1200]

McCarthyism - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Victims of McCarthyism[edit]
It is difficult to estimate the number of victims of McCarthyism. The number imprisoned is in the hundreds, and some ten or twelve thousand lost their jobs.[52] In many cases simply being subpoenaed by HUAC or one of the other committees was sufficient cause to be fired.[53] Many of those who were imprisoned, lost their jobs or were questioned by committees did in fact have a past or present connection of some kind with the Communist Party. But for the vast majority, both the potential for them to do harm to the nation and the nature of their communist affiliation were tenuous.[54] After the extremely damaging "Cambridge Five" spy scandal (Burgess, Maclean, Philby, Blunt, et al.), suspected homosexuality was also a common cause for being targeted by McCarthyism. The hunt for "sexual perverts", who were presumed to be subversive by nature, resulted in thousands being harassed and denied employment.[55] Many have termed this aspect of McCarthyism "The Lavender Scare".[56]

Homosexuality was classified as a psychiatric disorder in the 1950s.[57] However, in the context of the highly politicised Cold War environment, homosexuality became framed as a dangerous, contagious social disease that posed a potential threat to state security.[57] As the family was believed to be the cornerstone of American strength and integrity,[58] the stigmatisation of homosexuals as "sexual perverts" meant that they were both unable to function within a family unit and presented the potential to poison the social body.[59] This era also witnessed the establishment of widely spread FBI surveillance intended to identify homosexual government employees.[60]

The McCarthy hearings and according "sexual pervert" investigations can be seen to have been driven by a desire to identify individuals whose ability to function as loyal citizens had been compromised.[59] Joseph McCarthy began his campaign by drawing upon the ways in which he embodied traditional American values in order to become the self-appointed vanguard of social morality.[61] Paradoxically, accusations of alleged homosexual behaviour marked the end of McCarthy’s political career.[62]


Dalton Trumbo and his wife Cleo at the House Un-American Activities Committee in 1947.
In the film industry, more than 300 actors, authors and directors were denied work in the U.S. through the unofficial Hollywood blacklist. Blacklists were at work throughout the entertainment industry, in universities and schools at all levels, in the legal profession, and in many other fields. A port security program initiated by the Coast Guard shortly after the start of the Korean War required a review of every maritime worker who loaded or worked aboard any American ship, regardless of cargo or destination. As with other loyalty-security reviews of McCarthyism, the identities of any accusers and even the nature of any accusations were typically kept secret from the accused. Nearly 3,000 seamen and longshoremen lost their jobs due to this program alone.[63]

Some of the more notable people who were blacklisted or suffered some other persecution during McCarthyism are listed here:

• Nelson Algren, writer[64]
• Lucille Ball, actress, model, and film studio executive.[65]
• Alvah Bessie, Abraham Lincoln Brigade, writer, journalist, screenwriter, Hollywood Ten
• Elmer Bernstein, composer and conductor[66]
• Leonard Bernstein, conductor, pianist, composer[67]
• David Bohm, physicist and philosopher[68]
• Bertolt Brecht, poet, playwright, screenwriter
• Archie Brown, Abraham Lincoln Brigade, WW II vet, union leader, imprisoned. Successfully challenged Landrum-Griffin Act provision[69]
• Esther Brunauer, forced from the U.S. State Department[70]
• Luis Buñuel, film director, producer[71]
• Charlie Chaplin, actor and director[72]
• Aaron Copland, composer[73]
• Bartley Crum, attorney[74]
• Howard Da Silva, actor[75]
• Jules Dassin, director[76]
• Dolores del Río, actress[77]
• Edward Dmytryk, director, Hollywood Ten
• W.E.B. Du Bois, civil rights activist and author[78]
• George A. Eddy, pre-Keynesian Harvard economist, US Treasury monetary policy specialist[79]
• Albert Einstein, Nobel Prize-winning physicist, philosopher, mathematician, activist[80]
• Hanns Eisler, composer[81]
• Howard Fast, writer[82]
• Lion Feuchtwanger, novelist and playwright[83]
• Carl Foreman, writer of High Noon
• John Garfield, actor[73]
• Jack Gilford, actor[75]
• Allen Ginsberg, Beat poet
• Ruth Gordon, actress[75]
• Lee Grant, actress[84]
• Dashiell Hammett, author[73]
• Elizabeth Hawes, clothing designer, author, equal rights activist[85]
• Lillian Hellman, playwright[73]
• Dorothy Healey, union organizer, CPUSA official[86]
• Lena Horne, singer[75]
• Langston Hughes, writer, poet, playwright[73]
• Marsha Hunt, actress
• Sam Jaffe, actor[73]
• Theodore Kaghan, diplomat[87]
• Garson Kanin, writer and director[73]
• Danny Kaye, comedian, singer[88][broken citation]
• Benjamin Keen, historian[89]
• Otto Klemperer, conductor and composer[90]
• Gypsy Rose Lee, actress and stripper[73]
• Cornelius Lanczos, mathematician and physicist[91]
• Ring Lardner Jr., screenwriter, Hollywood Ten
• Arthur Laurents, playwright[75]
• Philip Loeb, actor[92]
• Joseph Losey, director[73]
• Albert Maltz, screenwriter, Hollywood Ten
• Heinrich Mann, novelist[93]
• Klaus Mann, writer[93]
• Thomas Mann, Nobel Prize winning novelist and essayist[93]
• Burgess Meredith, actor[73]
• Arthur Miller, playwright and essayist[73]
• Jessica Mitford, author, muckraker. Refused to testify to HUAC.
• Dimitri Mitropoulos, conductor, pianist, composer[94]
• Zero Mostel, actor[73]
• Joseph Needham, biochemist, sinologist, historian of science
• J. Robert Oppenheimer, physicist, scientific director of the Manhattan Project[95]
• Dorothy Parker, writer, humorist[73]
• Linus Pauling, chemist, Nobel prizes for Chemistry and Peace[96]
• Samuel Reber, diplomat[97]
• Al Richmond, union organizer, editor[98]
• Martin Ritt, actor and director[99]
• Paul Robeson, actor, athlete, singer, writer, political activist[100]
• Edward G. Robinson, actor[73]
• Waldo Salt, screenwriter[101]
• Jean Seberg, actress[102]
• Pete Seeger, folk singer, songwriter[73]
• Artie Shaw, jazz musician, bandleader, author[73]
• Irwin Shaw, writer[75]
• William L. Shirer, journalist, author[103]
• Lionel Stander, actor[104]
• Dirk Jan Struik, mathematician, historian of maths[105]
• Paul Sweezy, economist and founder-editor of Monthly Review[106]
• Charles W. Thayer, diplomat[107]
• Dalton Trumbo screenwriter, Hollywood Ten
• Tsien Hsue-shen, physicist[108]
• Sam Wanamaker, actor, director, responsible for recreating Shakespeare's Globe Theatre in London, England.
• Orson Welles, actor, author, film director[citation needed]
• Gene Weltfish, anthropologist fired from Columbia University[109]

In 1953, Robert K. Murray, a young professor of history at Pennsylvania State University who had served as an intelligence officer in World War II, was revising his dissertation on the Red Scare of 1919–20 for publication until Little, Brown and Company decided that "under the circumstances ... it wasn't wise for them to bring this book out." He learned that investigators were questioning his colleagues and relatives. The University of Minnesota press published his volume, Red Scare: A Study in National Hysteria, 1919–1920, in 1955.[110]

Critical reactions[edit]

What a classic example of why I laugh at anyone who thinks Wikipedia is a "source".

more proof you are ignorant.

I'm not the one citing the HUAC and the Hollywood blacklist as "evidence" against Joe McCarthy, a man who never served in the House, and didn't enter the Senate until well after the HUAC's activities.

 

[regent]

It was a committee that allowed McCarthy to commit the end of his political career and maybe his life. As I mentioned in another post for a second or two I felt sorry for McCarthy at the end if the Army-McArthur hearings as people are laughing and joking and packing to
leave and McCarthy's voice is heard through the din making one of his anti-communist speeches and no one is listening. Almost everyone knows its over for McCarthy, and worse, McCarthy probably knew it was all over too.

 

[Cecilie1200]

It was a committee that allowed McCarthy to commit the end of his political career and maybe his life. As I mentioned in another post for a second or two I felt sorry for McCarthy at the end if the Army-McArthur hearings as people are laughing and joking and packing to
leave and McCarthy's voice is heard through the din making one of his anti-communist speeches and no one is listening. Almost everyone knows its over for McCarthy, and worse, McCarthy probably knew it was all over too.

Dodge.

 

[daws101]

McCarthyism - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Victims of McCarthyism[edit]
It is difficult to estimate the number of victims of McCarthyism. The number imprisoned is in the hundreds, and some ten or twelve thousand lost their jobs.[52] In many cases simply being subpoenaed by HUAC or one of the other committees was sufficient cause to be fired.[53] Many of those who were imprisoned, lost their jobs or were questioned by committees did in fact have a past or present connection of some kind with the Communist Party. But for the vast majority, both the potential for them to do harm to the nation and the nature of their communist affiliation were tenuous.[54] After the extremely damaging "Cambridge Five" spy scandal (Burgess, Maclean, Philby, Blunt, et al.), suspected homosexuality was also a common cause for being targeted by McCarthyism. The hunt for "sexual perverts", who were presumed to be subversive by nature, resulted in thousands being harassed and denied employment.[55] Many have termed this aspect of McCarthyism "The Lavender Scare".[56]

Homosexuality was classified as a psychiatric disorder in the 1950s.[57] However, in the context of the highly politicised Cold War environment, homosexuality became framed as a dangerous, contagious social disease that posed a potential threat to state security.[57] As the family was believed to be the cornerstone of American strength and integrity,[58] the stigmatisation of homosexuals as "sexual perverts" meant that they were both unable to function within a family unit and presented the potential to poison the social body.[59] This era also witnessed the establishment of widely spread FBI surveillance intended to identify homosexual government employees.[60]

The McCarthy hearings and according "sexual pervert" investigations can be seen to have been driven by a desire to identify individuals whose ability to function as loyal citizens had been compromised.[59] Joseph McCarthy began his campaign by drawing upon the ways in which he embodied traditional American values in order to become the self-appointed vanguard of social morality.[61] Paradoxically, accusations of alleged homosexual behaviour marked the end of McCarthy’s political career.[62]


Dalton Trumbo and his wife Cleo at the House Un-American Activities Committee in 1947.
In the film industry, more than 300 actors, authors and directors were denied work in the U.S. through the unofficial Hollywood blacklist. Blacklists were at work throughout the entertainment industry, in universities and schools at all levels, in the legal profession, and in many other fields. A port security program initiated by the Coast Guard shortly after the start of the Korean War required a review of every maritime worker who loaded or worked aboard any American ship, regardless of cargo or destination. As with other loyalty-security reviews of McCarthyism, the identities of any accusers and even the nature of any accusations were typically kept secret from the accused. Nearly 3,000 seamen and longshoremen lost their jobs due to this program alone.[63]

Some of the more notable people who were blacklisted or suffered some other persecution during McCarthyism are listed here:

• Nelson Algren, writer[64]
• Lucille Ball, actress, model, and film studio executive.[65]
• Alvah Bessie, Abraham Lincoln Brigade, writer, journalist, screenwriter, Hollywood Ten
• Elmer Bernstein, composer and conductor[66]
• Leonard Bernstein, conductor, pianist, composer[67]
• David Bohm, physicist and philosopher[68]
• Bertolt Brecht, poet, playwright, screenwriter
• Archie Brown, Abraham Lincoln Brigade, WW II vet, union leader, imprisoned. Successfully challenged Landrum-Griffin Act provision[69]
• Esther Brunauer, forced from the U.S. State Department[70]
• Luis Buñuel, film director, producer[71]
• Charlie Chaplin, actor and director[72]
• Aaron Copland, composer[73]
• Bartley Crum, attorney[74]
• Howard Da Silva, actor[75]
• Jules Dassin, director[76]
• Dolores del Río, actress[77]
• Edward Dmytryk, director, Hollywood Ten
• W.E.B. Du Bois, civil rights activist and author[78]
• George A. Eddy, pre-Keynesian Harvard economist, US Treasury monetary policy specialist[79]
• Albert Einstein, Nobel Prize-winning physicist, philosopher, mathematician, activist[80]
• Hanns Eisler, composer[81]
• Howard Fast, writer[82]
• Lion Feuchtwanger, novelist and playwright[83]
• Carl Foreman, writer of High Noon
• John Garfield, actor[73]
• Jack Gilford, actor[75]
• Allen Ginsberg, Beat poet
• Ruth Gordon, actress[75]
• Lee Grant, actress[84]
• Dashiell Hammett, author[73]
• Elizabeth Hawes, clothing designer, author, equal rights activist[85]
• Lillian Hellman, playwright[73]
• Dorothy Healey, union organizer, CPUSA official[86]
• Lena Horne, singer[75]
• Langston Hughes, writer, poet, playwright[73]
• Marsha Hunt, actress
• Sam Jaffe, actor[73]
• Theodore Kaghan, diplomat[87]
• Garson Kanin, writer and director[73]
• Danny Kaye, comedian, singer[88][broken citation]
• Benjamin Keen, historian[89]
• Otto Klemperer, conductor and composer[90]
• Gypsy Rose Lee, actress and stripper[73]
• Cornelius Lanczos, mathematician and physicist[91]
• Ring Lardner Jr., screenwriter, Hollywood Ten
• Arthur Laurents, playwright[75]
• Philip Loeb, actor[92]
• Joseph Losey, director[73]
• Albert Maltz, screenwriter, Hollywood Ten
• Heinrich Mann, novelist[93]
• Klaus Mann, writer[93]
• Thomas Mann, Nobel Prize winning novelist and essayist[93]
• Burgess Meredith, actor[73]
• Arthur Miller, playwright and essayist[73]
• Jessica Mitford, author, muckraker. Refused to testify to HUAC.
• Dimitri Mitropoulos, conductor, pianist, composer[94]
• Zero Mostel, actor[73]
• Joseph Needham, biochemist, sinologist, historian of science
• J. Robert Oppenheimer, physicist, scientific director of the Manhattan Project[95]
• Dorothy Parker, writer, humorist[73]
• Linus Pauling, chemist, Nobel prizes for Chemistry and Peace[96]
• Samuel Reber, diplomat[97]
• Al Richmond, union organizer, editor[98]
• Martin Ritt, actor and director[99]
• Paul Robeson, actor, athlete, singer, writer, political activist[100]
• Edward G. Robinson, actor[73]
• Waldo Salt, screenwriter[101]
• Jean Seberg, actress[102]
• Pete Seeger, folk singer, songwriter[73]
• Artie Shaw, jazz musician, bandleader, author[73]
• Irwin Shaw, writer[75]
• William L. Shirer, journalist, author[103]
• Lionel Stander, actor[104]
• Dirk Jan Struik, mathematician, historian of maths[105]
• Paul Sweezy, economist and founder-editor of Monthly Review[106]
• Charles W. Thayer, diplomat[107]
• Dalton Trumbo screenwriter, Hollywood Ten
• Tsien Hsue-shen, physicist[108]
• Sam Wanamaker, actor, director, responsible for recreating Shakespeare's Globe Theatre in London, England.
• Orson Welles, actor, author, film director[citation needed]
• Gene Weltfish, anthropologist fired from Columbia University[109]

In 1953, Robert K. Murray, a young professor of history at Pennsylvania State University who had served as an intelligence officer in World War II, was revising his dissertation on the Red Scare of 1919–20 for publication until Little, Brown and Company decided that "under the circumstances ... it wasn't wise for them to bring this book out." He learned that investigators were questioning his colleagues and relatives. The University of Minnesota press published his volume, Red Scare: A Study in National Hysteria, 1919–1920, in 1955.[110]

Critical reactions[edit]

What a classic example of why I laugh at anyone who thinks Wikipedia is a "source".

more proof you are ignorant.

I'm not the one citing the HUAC and the Hollywood blacklist as "evidence" against Joe McCarthy, a man who never served in the House, and didn't enter the Senate until well after the HUAC's activities.

Classic distinction without a difference.