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Yes, accusations from the woman so devastated by Thomas that she followed him from one department to another.Anita Hill reference, sanitized for the kiddies
Yes, accusations from the woman so devastated by Thomas that she followed him from one department to another.Anita Hill reference, sanitized for the kiddies
Which is exactly the point... you can be RIGHT and still administer despicable tactics and policies.Why are you bashing McCarthy? The man was right, only mistaken in the reality being worse than he realized. We had hard evidence in form of intercepted messages to Moscow to prove it while he was thrown under the bus.
I would think that actively assisting a hostile foreign government is grounds for being fired shortly before appropriate criminal charges. McCarthy may have been an ass but he certainly was not a traitor unlike some others.Which is exactly the point... you can be RIGHT and still administer despicable tactics and policies.
You believe BLANK (fill in the blank with something entirely legal, including believing in communism then or now, being pro-Trump) therefore you should be summarily fired.
Agreed, but he overplayed his hand. Names on a list is not the same as active agent provocateurs of a foreign government. He lumped in, and agitated private industries to lump in, the "useful idiots" with those following marching orders directly from Moscow.I would think that actively assisting a hostile foreign government is grounds for being fired shortly before appropriate criminal charges. McCarthy may have been an ass but he certainly was not a traitor unlike some others.
Actively working for the Russians is a lot different than merely having unpopular opinions of right and proper.
I see your point.Agreed, but he overplayed his hand. Names on a list is not the same as active agent provocateurs of a foreign government. He lumped in, and agitated private industries to lump in, the "useful idiots" with those following marching orders directly from Moscow.
Best case, laziness... worst case, zealotry.
So, my analogy would be firing anyone at the January 6th rally or seen protesting on the steps of the Capitol... versus those attacking/fighting with police, breaking into the Capitol, etc.
IMO, one is exercising constitutionally protected rights... the other, criminal.
"McCarthyism" would be a list of all present.
I mostly agree, but would frame it differently.I see your point.
That said, I also see the demonizing of McCarthy as an integral part of turning a blind eye to the subjects of the Venona Project. We aren't talking a handful of people in contact with and taking orders from Moscow. There were tons of them in the government. It also leads me to take a critical view of Eisenhower's apparent apathy. This suspicion is bolstered by his being extremely political in some ways (i.e., working the establishment to his advantage) but indifferent in partisan ideology to the point that both parties courted him to run in 1952 and he didn't give a rat's ass who won in 1960.