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behindthesefangirleyes · 2 months

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I’m obsessed with this like you wouldn’t BELIEVE

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#fellow travelers #tim laughlin #jonathan bailey #hawkins fuller #matt bomer #roy cohn #will brill #joseph mccarthy #chris bauer #tiktok #no church in the wild #hawk and skippy #hawk x tim

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newyorkthegoldenage · 5 months

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At the Hotel Roosevelt office of "10 Million Americans Mobilizing for Justice," volunteers use adding machines to tabulate signatures obtained in a nationwide drive opposing the censure of Sen. Joseph R. McCarthy, November 26, 1954. They were unsuccessful: the Senate voted to censure him on December 2.

Photo: John Lent for the AP

#vintage New York #1950s #John Lent #Joseph McCarthy #McCarthyism #red baiting #red scare #witch hunt #blacklist #Nov. 26 #26 Nov.#Cold War #anti-Communism

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commiepinkofag · 10 months

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House on Un-American Activities Committee [HUAC] Protest San Francisco City Hall, May 13, 1960

After a peaceful sit-in at city hall, demonstrators were met with fire hoses and billy-clubs at the hands of the San Francisco police.

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there are so many [or all] diatribes by mccarthy where one could simply replace 'communists' with 'trans', 'drag queens', 'queers', 'woke' for the current rhetoric of politicians…

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irregularincidents · 9 months

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While the shadow Senator Joseph McCarthy left over the latter half of the 20th century in the United States is largely unavoidable, what is less well known are the circumstances under which his infamous witch hunts under the umbrellas of the Red and Lavender Scares (where he pursued people with real or imagined communist or lgbtq leanings) came to a close.

This itself is a story with several contributing factors.

McCarthy's Chief Counsel was a lawyer by the name of Roy Cohn (on the right on the main image, McCarthy on the left), a virulent anti-communist who was also the chief prosecutor for the Rosenburg Spy Case (arguing successfully for their executions despite even J Edgar Hoover thinking executing a mother with two young children would be unpopular). He was also a closeted homosexual, although his own leanings were an open secret among the US government, not that this deterred him from purging the US government of suspected gay and lesbian people (leading to 5000 people getting fired from their jobs).

Now, in November 1953, one of Cohn's associates by the name of G. Davies Schine (with whom Cohn had toured Germany previous to remove books by suspected communist authors from United States Information Agency libraries) was drafted into the US army. Cohn and McCarthy attempted to use their influence to pressure the army into having Schine stationed near to them in the US (some have read this as Cohn wanting his friend close by, others have suggested they were romantically involved, no confirmation is available that I can see, either way preferential treatment was demanded), and when the army told them no, the pair decided to threaten the army by turning their anti-communist hunts against them in retaliation.

And if you'd think that threatening the United States army in the early 1950s, when a former WWII general Dwight D. Eisenhower was president was a poor decision, you'd be right!

As such, in early 1954 the Senate Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations, usually chaired by McCarthy himself, was given the task of investigating whether McCarthy had indeed improperly sought preferential treatment. And unlike some of the other trials, the decision was made by ABC to televise the hearings, giving the American public their first view of what McCarthy's hearings were actually like as he turned his standard tricks against the army prosecutors.

You'd be right in thinking that it was more than a touch cynical that what it took to turn America against McCarthy was him attacking white, straight army dudes, but nevertheless that's what happened.

The army hired Boston lawyer Joseph Welch to make its case. At a session on June 9, 1954, McCarthy charged that one of Welch's attorneys had ties to a Communist organisation (the attorney in question, Fred Fischer, had been a member of the progressive National Lawyer's Guild). As an amazed television audience looked on, Welch responded with the immortal lines that ultimately ended McCarthy's career: "Until this moment, Senator, I think I never really gauged your cruelty or your recklessness." When McCarthy tried to continue his attack, Welch angrily interrupted, "Let us not assassinate this lad further, senator. You have done enough. Have you no sense of decency?".

Public support began to immediately drain from McCarthy, helped along by such things as the pioneering TV documentary series See It Now, where journalist Edward R Murrow (picture below) used clips of McCarthy's own behavior to underline how the senator had been exploiting the public's fear and spreading lies (such as implying the FDR and Truman administrations were treacherous) for his own political gain.

(Transcript of the episode here)

McCarthy was cleared of the charges, with sole responsibility being laid at the feet of Cohn, who resigned. By March of 1954, Joe's own Republican base in his home state of Wisconsin launched the Joe Must Go campaign, wishing to oust the senator for disrespecting the army, President Eisenhower, and for ignoring the plight of local dairy farmers facing price-slashing surpluses (y'know, the kind of issues he was elected to deal with rather than wandering around the United States harassing people for being gay, communist or being a gay communist).

He was eventually censured by the Senate on various charges that essentially amounted to making his colleagues look bad by association, and his political career limped along for a further two and a half years before finally dying of "Hepatitis, acute, cause unknown" on May 2, 1957. A diagnosis possibly made worse by both his heavy drinking and morphine addiction.

Schine, for his part in the proceedings, dropped out of politics following the hearings, where he entered the private sector, where among other things he made a cameo appearance in the 1966 Batman show (the Entrancing Dr Cassandra). He would eventually die in 1996 alongside his wife, and their 35 year old son in a private airplane accident.

And what of Roy Cohn... Well... While there are folk who'd go through an experience like this and try to either fade into obscurity or try to improve their image, Roy was not one of those people. He worked for the Mob in New York, the Catholic Church, Rupert Murdoch... and Donald Trump.

Cohn gathered a reputation for being willing to do whatever he felt was necessary to enrich either himself or to get his clients whatever they desired. This eventually led to his getting accused of theft, obstruction of justice, extortion, tax evasion, bribery, blackmail, fraud, perjury, and witness tampering. Indeed, Cohn's willingness to happily commit crimes for his clients has reportedly led to frustrations with Trump's recent legal trouble, with him being annoyed his current legal representatives aren't willing to do criminal stuff for them like Roy did back in the day.

Despite all of this though, Cohn remained a popular figure in conservative politics, even introducing Roger Stone to Trump, and was notably close friends with Ronald and Nancy Reagan, with whom he acted as an informal advisor and even ran Ron's presidential campaign in New York, Connecticut and New Jersey.

In 1986, Cohn was disbarred for, among other things, attempting to forge a client's will to make himself the beneficiary upon their death. On 2 August of that year, he died of complications from AIDS, having been cut off by Trump despite Cohn's loyalty (and help with lucrative mob contracts) over the years.

The IRS promptly seized his property, due to his owing the US government $7million in back taxes.

#irregular incidents #the cold war #crime #joseph mccarthy #roy cohn #history #american history #american politics #lgbtq #batman 1966

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dontmeantobepoliticalbut · 9 months

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Florida schools have approved the use of “supplemental curriculum” created by PragerU, an unaccredited right-wing advocacy group that seeks to offer an alternative to “dominant left-wing ideologies,” in classrooms days after the state Department of Education approved new, controversial academic standards for Black history curriculum.

PragerU CEO Marissa Streit announced that Florida approved the nonprofit as an official vendor, allowing teachers to incorporate its educational entertainment videos, self-described as “edutainment,” as supplemental materials in classrooms.

“We have seen that our schools have been hijacked by the left. They have been politicized, they have been used by union bosses, they have been doing everything under the sun not for our children,” Streit said.

“And so we have launched PragerU Kids and we started providing great 'edutainment,' educational entertainment for children across America. But we didn’t just stop there. Now we’re actually making turnkey curriculum. Content for your schools. And the state of Florida just announced that we are now becoming an official vendor. This means that if you are a teacher in Florida, you cannot be fired for using PragerU content.”

The Miami New Times confirmed that the Florida Board of Education approved the materials, saying that it aligned with the state's revised civics and government standards.

WHAT IS PRAGERU?

Prager University Foundation is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit that creates educational videos that it says promote American values. PragerU’s website says that it “offers a free alternative to dominant left-wing ideology in culture, media and education.”

The driving force behind much of PragerU’s growing popularity stems from its series title “5-Minute Videos,” which boils down everything from economic and political science topics to life lessons and cultural topics into bite-sized, 5-minute videos.

Many of the most popular videos tackle controversial topics. As of this writing, the five videos showcased under the “Most Popular 5-Minute Videos” tag include “Do You Understand the Electoral College,” “Was the Civil War About Slavery,” “The Inconvenient Truth About the Democratic Party,” “Why I Left the Left” and “War on Boys.”

WHO FOUNDED PRAGERU? PragerU was founded in 2009 by Allen Estrin and conservative radio talk show host Dennis Prager.

WHAT DOES PRAGERU’S CURRICULUM TEACH?

PragerU believes that American schools are “indoctrinating” students who are being taught “radical ideas” about critical race theory, systemic racism, gender fluidity, anti-Americanism and that math is racist. It says it has designed its curriculum to provide “both sides of the argument” and help kids understand history, economics, foreign affairs and philosophy.

PragerU’s website provides users with access to its educational videos but does little to shed light on what specific key concepts it hopes to instill through its curriculum.

Examples of lesson plans can also be found on the website, but they only provide basic, surface-level views of what will be taught. A lesson plan regarding the Federalist Papers only has four learning objectives:

• Identify who wrote the Federalist Papers • Explain why the Federalist Papers were written • Recognize why the framers of the Constitution created a federal government with checks and balances • Appreciate the system of government established by the Founding Fathers

The full lesson can be learned in about 50 minutes, according to the site.

WHY CRITICS PUSH BACK AGAINST PRAGERU CURRICULUM

PragerU has a long history of experts rebuking ideas presented in many of its videos.

Joseph McCarthy of The Weather Channel in 2016 wrote an entire feature on PragerU’s video called "Fossil Fuels: The Greenest Energy," which had garnered 1.5 million views at that time. McCarthy wrote that the video was presented by a proponent of fossil fuel, Alex Epstein, and that the video “flubs a major date and soberly transitions between obvious inaccuracies and out-of-context claims."

Paul Gottfried in 2017 wrote pinned a story in The American Conservative lambasting PragerU presenter Dinesh D’Souza for claiming that fascism was a left-wing idea. D’Souza claimed that it could be proven that it was a “leftist” idea by examining the political writings of Mussolini’s court philosopher Giovanni Gentile.

Gottfried, a paleoconservative scholar, wrote that “their judgment also clashes with that of almost all scholars of Gentile’s work, from across the political spectrum, who view him, as I do in my study of fascism, as the most distinguished intellectual of the revolutionary right.”

These are just the tip of the iceberg, however. The Daily Beast points out that PragerU videos have claimed there’s no wage gap between men and women and that it has praised Confederate General Robert E. Lee for crushing an attempted slave rebellion.

And others have noted inaccuracies in videos claiming that Europe is “committing suicide” by allowing mass migration, that “whiteness and conservatism” are under attack and more.

Civic groups like the Southern Poverty Law Center and the Anti-Defamation League have also criticized PragerU’s videos, describing some as a “dog whistle to the extreme right” and “filled with anti-immigration and anti-Muslim rhetoric.”

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deceptigoons-attack · 6 months

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Do you think McCarthy's list of supposed Communists in the State Department that he waved around at the meeting of the Republican Women's Club in 1950 was ACTUALLY a list of 205 names. or just like his grocery list. 😂

#In this specific instance #Joseph McCarthy #American history #us history #the red scare #the cold war

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giveamadeuschohisownmovie · 9 months

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Ideas for future episodes of “Epic Rap Battles of History”:

1) The Snow White Battle Royale (Brothers Grimm Snow White vs. Disney Snow White vs. OUAT Snow White/Mary Margaret Blanchard vs. Weiss Schnee from RWBY vs. Fables/Telltale Snow White)

2) Wednesday Addams vs. Sabrina Spellman (theme: the “weird” girls who were beloved sitcom characters that later received a dark reboot)

3) Yuri Gagarin vs. Neil Armstrong (theme: the ‘nauts who left their mark on history)

4) Marlon Brando vs. Humphrey Bogart (theme: two actors who are considered to be the greatest)

5) Benedict Arnold vs. Judas Iscariot (theme: two of the most infamous traitors in world history)

6) Hugh Glass vs. Bear Grylls (theme: legendary frontiersman against a TV show survivalist. Both also have a connection to bears)

7) Joseph McCarthy vs. Abigail Williams (theme: individuals whose legacies are tied to two of the most infamous witch hunts in American history)

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xkcdbracket · 11 months

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xkcd Bracket

Jenny McCarthy. Model, actress, and anti-vaxxer

Joseph McCarthy. American Senator known for anti-communist policies.

Eugene McCarthy. Democratic Minnesota senator and presidential candidate.

Eugene V. Debs. American socialist and trade unionist.

#xkcd #polls #poll tournament #tournmanet #bracket #polls on tumblr #1529 #Jenny McCarthy #Joseph McCarthy #0xav0x50 #Eugene McCarthy #Eugene Debs #1529 Round 1

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devil-of-books · 1 year

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it’s just so funny to name animals human names like-

“oh don’t mind Kevin there, he’s just suspicious of the mail truck”

“…. Kevin believes in McCarthyism”

#…. yeah I’m cracking under the stress of school and Princeton decisions soon woohooo #but like #just the potential for humor #wild #shitpost #mccarthyism #joseph mccarthy #That man would love this post #you know I’m right #honestly though what is this is not an apush meme #apush me off a cliff #ap us history #dogs

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audiemurphy1945 · 8 months

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Ben Shahn, Edward R. Murrow Slays McCarthyism, 1954, design by George Lois

#art #1954 #ben shahn #george lois #edward r. murrow #joseph mccarthy #50s #vintage #...

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kramlabs · 11 months

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Roy Cohn: McCarthy, RFK, Trump and KAL 007

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#western goals #Roy Cohn #joseph mccarthy #trump #sullivan and cromwell #Youtube

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newyorkthegoldenage · 1 year

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Owen Lattimore, a respected scholar and author who specialized in Asia and China, was accused by Senator Joseph McCarthy of being the top Communist agent in the United States. He and his wife, Eleanor, held a press conference in New York on April 1, 1950, during which he again denied the allegation, saying "no one likes to be splattered with mud, even by a madman." Lattimore said McCarthy's accusations were hampering U.S. officials abroad. "McCarthy's vicious attacks on the highest officials of our State Department are accomplishing results for Russia which exceed their wildest hopes," he declared.

Photo: Tom Fitzsimmons for the AP via Shutterstock

#vintage New York #1950s #Tom Fitzsimmons #McCarthyism #Owen Lattimore #Joseph McCarthy #red-baiting #April 1 #1 April #red scare

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warsofasoiaf · 1 year

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On the subject, what was so bad about McCarthyism? I mean, people spying for hostile (or even friendly) countries is bad, right? Or did Soviet engineering take them nuclear all by themselves? Did McCarthy go after anyone who was not a government employee? Did he have anyone arrested? I read the "Have you no decency" line in context and it was nonsense that everyone agrees was as brilliant as the Emperor's new clothes.

McCarthyism isn't just McCarthy chairing the Senate Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations, it encompasses much of the attitudes of the Second Red Scare. Anyway, McCarthy did question people who weren't government employees, like William Gropper and Rockwell Kent.

Espionage was a problem in the United States, and the US was right to investigate the CPUSA for its Soviet funding and use of resources to facilitate Soviet espionage. I don't believe that CPUSA's statements that they did not seek the violent overthrow of the US government was true, I think many members would have been quite happy to overthrow the United States government and replace it with one that put them on top if they had the capability (which they never did). But that was never proven (and is almost impossible to prove anyway), and unless it was, its members had the right to freedom of association and not to be criminalized for it. Individuals that committed espionage, like the Rosenbergs (anyone who says that they were political prisoners killed for their beliefs has not read the Venona decrypts or is just straight-up lying) were definitely guilty and the US was right to convict them of espionage. But mere membership in the group is not a crime, and it was used as such in the Foley Square trial. So I criticize McCarthyism because it violated central civil liberties. And yes, I'm quite aware that the rights and consideration I extend to others are not reciprocated.

I also criticize McCarthyism on practical grounds, because most Soviet spies that were discovered were not done through McCarthy, but rather by traditional espionage and counter-espionage tactics. Most of the spies weren't even on McCarthy's lists, and of the 159 names that McCarthy had, only nine were ever proven to have assisted in Soviet espionage efforts. So for all that, it wasn't very effective.

Thanks for the question, Anon.

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thenewdemocratus · 10 months

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Arpa Keun: McCarthyism in America

. Source:The New Democrat McCarthyism in America deserves at least one long blog and probably several of them. But to give you a summary of McCarthyism. It was about one U.S. Senator from Wisconsin Joe McCarthy who was anti-communist to the point that he didn’t believe democracy or liberal democracy could survive in the United States with any link to it. Especially inside the United States…