#mccarthyism — Public Fediverse posts
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McCarthyism & Trumpism
The USA was set up for Trump 2.0 to take care of all his friends.
https://tiereddemocraticgovernance.org/blog_details.php?blog_cat_id=21&id=472
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McCarthyism & Trumpism
Fortunately, the Republicans did not go in the direction of "helping" rank-and-file Republicans:
https://tiereddemocraticgovernance.org/blog_details.php?blog_cat_id=21&id=472
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#LauraLoomer, gadfly & #Trump favorite, told…Michael Scherer in an interview…that “we need to make McCarthy great again.” And she told The New Yorker that McCarthy is “one of the most underrated & underappreciated political figures in history.” #JackPosobiec, a prominent #FarRight influencer & #ConspiracyTheorist, has posted that “McCarthy didn’t go far enough.” #SteveBannon, in a recent phone conversation with Breland, put it even more starkly: “We need to do #McCarthyism to the tenth power.”
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#LauraLoomer, gadfly & #Trump favorite, told…Michael Scherer in an interview…that “we need to make McCarthy great again.” And she told The New Yorker that McCarthy is “one of the most underrated & underappreciated political figures in history.” #JackPosobiec, a prominent #FarRight influencer & #ConspiracyTheorist, has posted that “McCarthy didn’t go far enough.” #SteveBannon, in a recent phone conversation with Breland, put it even more starkly: “We need to do #McCarthyism to the tenth power.”
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#LauraLoomer, gadfly & #Trump favorite, told…Michael Scherer in an interview…that “we need to make McCarthy great again.” And she told The New Yorker that McCarthy is “one of the most underrated & underappreciated political figures in history.” #JackPosobiec, a prominent #FarRight influencer & #ConspiracyTheorist, has posted that “McCarthy didn’t go far enough.” #SteveBannon, in a recent phone conversation with Breland, put it even more starkly: “We need to do #McCarthyism to the tenth power.”
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#LauraLoomer, gadfly & #Trump favorite, told…Michael Scherer in an interview…that “we need to make McCarthy great again.” And she told The New Yorker that McCarthy is “one of the most underrated & underappreciated political figures in history.” #JackPosobiec, a prominent #FarRight influencer & #ConspiracyTheorist, has posted that “McCarthy didn’t go far enough.” #SteveBannon, in a recent phone conversation with Breland, put it even more starkly: “We need to do #McCarthyism to the tenth power.”
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#LauraLoomer, gadfly & #Trump favorite, told…Michael Scherer in an interview…that “we need to make McCarthy great again.” And she told The New Yorker that McCarthy is “one of the most underrated & underappreciated political figures in history.” #JackPosobiec, a prominent #FarRight influencer & #ConspiracyTheorist, has posted that “McCarthy didn’t go far enough.” #SteveBannon, in a recent phone conversation with Breland, put it even more starkly: “We need to do #McCarthyism to the tenth power.”
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(The tide of public opinion turned against McCarthy when he was challenged by the U.S. Army’s chief counsel Joseph Welch with the famous question “Have you no sense of decency, sir?”—a rocket at the time that by today’s standards of political discourse could be considered something of a softball.)
#McCarthyism #Republicans #GOP #FarRight #WhiteChristianNationalism #extremism #radicalization #USpol
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But now comes a small, influential group of hard-line right-wingers who believe that, in the words of one popular meme in such circles, “McCarthy was right”.
…The case for McCarthy’s rehabilitation centers on the contention that the senator has been unfairly maligned & was correct in his choices of both his enemies & his tactics—& that, if anything, he didn’t go far enough, limited as he was by the relative decorum of the times.
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For decades, Sen Joseph R. McCarthy’s name has been used as shorthand for the opposite of the aspirational ideal of civilized #US #politics. In the way that “Kleenex” has become interchangeable with “tissue”, #McCarthyism, for many, is an eponym for the unjust, reprehensible use of political power. Indicating that anything resembled the tactics & smears of the late Wisconsin senator has been enough to suggest that such behavior was out of bounds, with no rightful place in our modern politics.
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These people are freaking #Nazis
‘We Need to Do #McCarthyism to the Tenth Power’
#Conservative influencers are pushing for a return to the dark days of 1950s #inquisitions.
By Ali Breland
#Republicans #GOP #FarRight #WhiteChristianNationalism #extremism #radicalization #USpol
https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/2026/03/joseph-mccarthy-revivalism-trump/686258/?gift=guxsrl_dAdXUP9zqbQPWxVNPz5daoFVze3UgD8h8rtk -
When Was America “Great”? Exposing the Myth Behind MAGA Nostalgia
A caller questions when America was “great,” sparking a deep dive into racist nostalgia, elite power, and the myths behind MAGA’s longing for the past.
#CivilRights #ClassSolidarity #democracy #EconomicInequality #IndependentMedia #JEdgarHoover #MAGA #McCarthyism #PoliticalCommentary #ProgressivePolitics #racialCapitalism #RoyCohn #USHistory #WhiteSupremacy https://wp.me/p1OjMZ-oIO -
When Was America “Great”? Exposing the Myth Behind MAGA Nostalgia
A caller questions when America was “great,” sparking a deep dive into racist nostalgia, elite power, and the myths behind MAGA’s longing for the past.
#CivilRights #ClassSolidarity #democracy #EconomicInequality #IndependentMedia #JEdgarHoover #MAGA #McCarthyism #PoliticalCommentary #ProgressivePolitics #racialCapitalism #RoyCohn #USHistory #WhiteSupremacy https://wp.me/p1OjMZ-oIO -
"En séparant LFI du reste de la gauche, le ministère change de fait la façon dont seront comptabilisés les résultats au soir des élections. Le bloc « gauche » verrait son score électoral mécaniquement baisser quand celui du « centre » serait gonflé par l’ajout de l’UDI."
Tout va bien 🙃
#politics #politique #maccarthysme #McCarthyism #lfi #lafranceinsoumise #gauche
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"En séparant LFI du reste de la gauche, le ministère change de fait la façon dont seront comptabilisés les résultats au soir des élections. Le bloc « gauche » verrait son score électoral mécaniquement baisser quand celui du « centre » serait gonflé par l’ajout de l’UDI."
Tout va bien 🙃
#politics #politique #maccarthysme #McCarthyism #lfi #lafranceinsoumise #gauche
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"En séparant LFI du reste de la gauche, le ministère change de fait la façon dont seront comptabilisés les résultats au soir des élections. Le bloc « gauche » verrait son score électoral mécaniquement baisser quand celui du « centre » serait gonflé par l’ajout de l’UDI."
Tout va bien 🙃
#politics #politique #maccarthysme #McCarthyism #lfi #lafranceinsoumise #gauche
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"En séparant LFI du reste de la gauche, le ministère change de fait la façon dont seront comptabilisés les résultats au soir des élections. Le bloc « gauche » verrait son score électoral mécaniquement baisser quand celui du « centre » serait gonflé par l’ajout de l’UDI."
Tout va bien 🙃
#politics #politique #maccarthysme #McCarthyism #lfi #lafranceinsoumise #gauche
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McCarthyism and Trumpism
I thought the Republican Party would take this direction. But they did not:
https://tiereddemocraticgovernance.org/blog_details.php?blog_cat_id=21&id=472
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@Ardvaark #SouthPark didn’t exist, and Trey Parker and Matt Stone weren’t even born during #McCarthyism , let alone the original #AmericaFirst #propaganda wave before the #UnitedStates entered #WorldWar2.
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A friend who grew up in L.A. among famous people with a famous father during the Mccarthy era said that kids of blackballed Hollywood folks were called to the front of the classroom and made to stand while the teacher told the other kids not to play with them. So their parents founded their own school, and it's still going now.
I've been thinking about McCarthyism and the sentence that brought it down. "At long last, sir, have you no shame?" I'd love to ask congress.
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a sidetrack I shall have to return to after I finish my PMBS research but damn the HUAC interrogation of musicians here is very sadly fascinating. came to it when searching the names of some minor PMBS members on Internet Archive.
https://archive.org/details/investigationofc5702unit/page/n7/mode/2up -
Red Scare: Blacklists, McCarthyism, and the Making of Modern America by Clay Risen, 2025
As relevant as it is comprehensive, Red Scare tells the story of McCarthyism and the Red Scare—based in part on newly declassified sources—by an award-winning writer of history and New York Times reporter.
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Consider what happened in Texas in 2010. As part of a highly publicized revamp of the state social studies curriculum, the Republican-controlled Texas Board of Education removed slavery as the central cause of the Civil War and replaced it with states' rights and secession, with Republican board member Patricia Hardy calling slavery "an after issue." The Republican members also considered referring to the slave trade as the "Atlantic Triangular Trade" before finally settling on "Transatlantic Slave Trade."
The new curriculum was silent on the KKK during Reconstruction and failed to mention the Jim Crow era at all. It also equated Confederate President Jefferson Davis and Abraham Lincoln.
In addition, the curriculum claimed that Joseph McCarthy was correct when he said the U.S. government had been infiltrated by communists in the 1950s, included lessons on why the U.S. needs to return to the gold standard, and asserted that the United Nations, International Criminal Court, and global environmental initiatives undermined U.S. sovereignty. And it scrubbed any mention of Thomas Jefferson's role in U.S. history because he advocated for the separation of church and state.
#confederacy
#confederate
#LostCause
#UnitedDaughtersOfTheConfederacy #UDC
#slavery
#education
#textbooks
#censorship
#BookBans
#Lincoln
#Jefferson
#McCarthyism
#UN
#JimCrow
#Texas
#KKK
#ICC
#Reconstruction
#redemption
#racism
#WhiteSupremacy
#GoldStandard (yes, the clamour for the gold standard is part of white supremacy OMG no-one told me) -
McCarthyism & Trumpism
The new elite is much smaller in numbers than I predicted:
https://tiereddemocraticgovernance.org/blog_details.php?blog_cat_id=21&id=472
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In 1954, during the era of small black-and-white televisions, sock hops, and the 48 states of America, two men sought control over the American political narrative. This is their story.
#Murrow #PoliticalOpportunist #CrusadingJournalist #McCarthyism #AmericanHistory #History #USHistory #AmericanPolitics #USPolitics
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Roy Justus takes on McCarthyism and its bullying tactics, May 1954 - Randall Stephens
https://bsky.app/profile/randalljstephens.bsky.social/post/3m6mfohimdc2g
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House Passes Resolution Condemning Socialism Ahead of Mamdani White House Visit
Rashida Tlaib said the vote shows lawmakers “feel threatened” by those “willing to take on the billionaire class.” -
New Florida Curriculum on Communism is a “Dangerous Recasting” of McCarthyism – PEN America
New Florida Curriculum on Communism is a “Dangerous Recasting” of McCarthyism
Education Should Champion Diverse Perspectives, Not Impose a Rigid Set of Beliefs
Educational Censorship U.S. Free Expression
November 17, 2025
(MIAMI)— PEN America today criticized Florida’s new social studies standards that established a unit on “The History of Communism” for grades 6-12, calling it a “dangerous recasting” of McCarthyism as patriotism.
PEN America Florida Director William Johnson said: “This new unit is a dangerous recasting of McCarthyism as patriotism and dissent as ‘un-American.’ Florida’s new standards impose a single, rigid set of beliefs such as criticizing communism, when education should champion the exploration of diverse perspectives. A classroom should be a place where ideas meet, not where ideology reigns.”
The Florida Department of Education, which adopted the standards last week, had said the new unit on communism was a response to a “resurgence of communist ideologies across the United States and throughout the world,” noting “it is more important than ever for students to understand the catastrophic failures and human suffering caused by communist regimes.”
Historians quoted in the Tampa Bay Times called this new standard “skewed,” “highly biased,” and reflecting a resurgence of Cold War-era propaganda.
The new social studies standards stem from state Senate Bill 1264, “History of Communism,” passed in 2024. PEN America has described bills like this one as “delineating what viewpoints must be taught in such a manner as to potentially restrict educators’ professional discretion, and impose an ideological constraint on the freedom to learn.” Given Governor DeSantis’s prior statements about the “evils of communism,” these standards are likely to chill the speech of educators and compel them to only discuss certain viewpoints.
In 2023, the state Board of Education approved African American history standards that required educators to teach that enslaved people “developed skills which, in some instances, could be applied for their personal benefit.” The standards were widely criticized as a defense of slavery.
Editor’s Note: The featured image at top by WP AI.
Continue/Read Original Article Here: New Florida Curriculum on Communism is a “Dangerous Recasting” of McCarthyism – PEN America
#communism #curriculum #dangerous #educationalCensorship #florida #mccarthyism #noRigidBeliefs #notDiverse #penAmerica #socialStudies #uSFreeExpression
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New Florida Curriculum on Communism is a “Dangerous Recasting” of McCarthyism – PEN America
New Florida Curriculum on Communism is a “Dangerous Recasting” of McCarthyism
Education Should Champion Diverse Perspectives, Not Impose a Rigid Set of Beliefs
Educational Censorship U.S. Free Expression
November 17, 2025
(MIAMI)— PEN America today criticized Florida’s new social studies standards that established a unit on “The History of Communism” for grades 6-12, calling it a “dangerous recasting” of McCarthyism as patriotism.
PEN America Florida Director William Johnson said: “This new unit is a dangerous recasting of McCarthyism as patriotism and dissent as ‘un-American.’ Florida’s new standards impose a single, rigid set of beliefs such as criticizing communism, when education should champion the exploration of diverse perspectives. A classroom should be a place where ideas meet, not where ideology reigns.”
The Florida Department of Education, which adopted the standards last week, had said the new unit on communism was a response to a “resurgence of communist ideologies across the United States and throughout the world,” noting “it is more important than ever for students to understand the catastrophic failures and human suffering caused by communist regimes.”
Historians quoted in the Tampa Bay Times called this new standard “skewed,” “highly biased,” and reflecting a resurgence of Cold War-era propaganda.
The new social studies standards stem from state Senate Bill 1264, “History of Communism,” passed in 2024. PEN America has described bills like this one as “delineating what viewpoints must be taught in such a manner as to potentially restrict educators’ professional discretion, and impose an ideological constraint on the freedom to learn.” Given Governor DeSantis’s prior statements about the “evils of communism,” these standards are likely to chill the speech of educators and compel them to only discuss certain viewpoints.
In 2023, the state Board of Education approved African American history standards that required educators to teach that enslaved people “developed skills which, in some instances, could be applied for their personal benefit.” The standards were widely criticized as a defense of slavery.
Editor’s Note: The featured image at top by WP AI.
Continue/Read Original Article Here: New Florida Curriculum on Communism is a “Dangerous Recasting” of McCarthyism – PEN America
#communism #curriculum #dangerous #educationalCensorship #florida #mccarthyism #noRigidBeliefs #notDiverse #penAmerica #socialStudies #uSFreeExpression
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#Education #Florida #McCarthyism
From AP News.com: She was blacklisted during McCarthyism. Now she's speaking out against Florida's teaching standards
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A quotation from Eleanor Roosevelt
In our country we must trust the people to hear and see both the good and the bad and to choose the good. The Un-American Activities Committee seems to me to be better for a police state than for the USA.
Eleanor Roosevelt (1884-1962) First Lady of the US (1933-45), politician, diplomat, activist
Column (1947-10-29), “My Day”More info about this quote: wist.info/roosevelt-eleanor/80…
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #eleanorroosevelt #America #freedomofthought #inquiry #marketplaceofideas #mccarthyism #RedScare #society #trust #huac #unamerican
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A quotation from Eleanor Roosevelt
In our country we must trust the people to hear and see both the good and the bad and to choose the good. The Un-American Activities Committee seems to me to be better for a police state than for the USA.
Eleanor Roosevelt (1884-1962) First Lady of the US (1933-45), politician, diplomat, activist
Column (1947-10-29), “My Day”More info about this quote: wist.info/roosevelt-eleanor/80…
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #eleanorroosevelt #America #freedomofthought #inquiry #marketplaceofideas #mccarthyism #RedScare #society #trust #huac #unamerican
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A quotation from Eleanor Roosevelt
In our country we must trust the people to hear and see both the good and the bad and to choose the good. The Un-American Activities Committee seems to me to be better for a police state than for the USA.
Eleanor Roosevelt (1884-1962) First Lady of the US (1933-45), politician, diplomat, activist
Column (1947-10-29), “My Day”More info about this quote: wist.info/roosevelt-eleanor/80…
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #eleanorroosevelt #America #freedomofthought #inquiry #marketplaceofideas #mccarthyism #RedScare #society #trust #huac #unamerican
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A quotation from Eleanor Roosevelt
In our country we must trust the people to hear and see both the good and the bad and to choose the good. The Un-American Activities Committee seems to me to be better for a police state than for the USA.
Eleanor Roosevelt (1884-1962) First Lady of the US (1933-45), politician, diplomat, activist
Column (1947-10-29), “My Day”More info about this quote: wist.info/roosevelt-eleanor/80…
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #eleanorroosevelt #America #freedomofthought #inquiry #marketplaceofideas #mccarthyism #RedScare #society #trust #huac #unamerican
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:florida: **What to know about how Florida will teach McCarthyism and the Cold War**
"_McCarthy and the House Committee on Un-American Activities are painted as champions of anti-communism, rather than the more commonly accepted interpretation that they fomented one of the most repressive chapters in modern American history._"
#History #Histodons #McCarthyism #Education #Learning #Florida
#Image attribution: U.S. Government, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons. Page URL: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Joseph_McCarthy_studio_portrait.jpg.
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A quotation from Eleanor Roosevelt
What is going on in the Un-American Activities Committee worries me primarily because little people have become frightened and we find ourselves living in the atmosphere of a police state, where people close doors before they state what they think or look over their shoulders apprehensively before they express an opinion.
Eleanor Roosevelt (1884-1962) First Lady of the US (1933-45), politician, diplomat, activist
Column (1947-10-29), “My Day”More about this quote: wist.info/roosevelt-eleanor/80…
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #eleanorroosevelt #chillingeffect #fear #freespeech #freedomofspeech #freedomofthought #mccarthyism #policestate #RedScare #selfcensorship #tyranny
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A quotation from Eleanor Roosevelt
What is going on in the Un-American Activities Committee worries me primarily because little people have become frightened and we find ourselves living in the atmosphere of a police state, where people close doors before they state what they think or look over their shoulders apprehensively before they express an opinion.
Eleanor Roosevelt (1884-1962) First Lady of the US (1933-45), politician, diplomat, activist
Column (1947-10-29), “My Day”More about this quote: wist.info/roosevelt-eleanor/80…
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #eleanorroosevelt #chillingeffect #fear #freespeech #freedomofspeech #freedomofthought #mccarthyism #policestate #RedScare #selfcensorship #tyranny
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A quotation from Eleanor Roosevelt
What is going on in the Un-American Activities Committee worries me primarily because little people have become frightened and we find ourselves living in the atmosphere of a police state, where people close doors before they state what they think or look over their shoulders apprehensively before they express an opinion.
Eleanor Roosevelt (1884-1962) First Lady of the US (1933-45), politician, diplomat, activist
Column (1947-10-29), “My Day”More about this quote: wist.info/roosevelt-eleanor/80…
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #eleanorroosevelt #chillingeffect #fear #freespeech #freedomofspeech #freedomofthought #mccarthyism #policestate #RedScare #selfcensorship #tyranny
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A quotation from Eleanor Roosevelt
What is going on in the Un-American Activities Committee worries me primarily because little people have become frightened and we find ourselves living in the atmosphere of a police state, where people close doors before they state what they think or look over their shoulders apprehensively before they express an opinion.
Eleanor Roosevelt (1884-1962) First Lady of the US (1933-45), politician, diplomat, activist
Column (1947-10-29), “My Day”More about this quote: wist.info/roosevelt-eleanor/80…
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #eleanorroosevelt #chillingeffect #fear #freespeech #freedomofspeech #freedomofthought #mccarthyism #policestate #RedScare #selfcensorship #tyranny
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A quotation from Eleanor Roosevelt
What is going on in the Un-American Activities Committee worries me primarily because little people have become frightened and we find ourselves living in the atmosphere of a police state, where people close doors before they state what they think or look over their shoulders apprehensively before they express an opinion.
Eleanor Roosevelt (1884-1962) First Lady of the US (1933-45), politician, diplomat, activist
Column (1947-10-29), “My Day”More about this quote: wist.info/roosevelt-eleanor/80…
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #eleanorroosevelt #chillingeffect #fear #freespeech #freedomofspeech #freedomofthought #mccarthyism #policestate #RedScare #selfcensorship #tyranny
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McCarthyism & Trumpism
These two movements could have been interconnected into a strong political movement. For some reason, they were not.
https://tiereddemocraticgovernance.org/blog_details.php?blog_cat_id=21&id=472
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The New #McCarthyism: How the #Culture Wars Replaced the Function of Our #Government
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harry haller schrieb den folgenden Beitrag Thu, 16 Oct 2025 22:24:13 +0200 Reminder that House Un-American Activities Committee suspected also anti-facists as "communists". Not that it matters. Communists were and are the best anti-fascists. Kim Philby was one of the best. But that's another matter.Mr. ARENS: Now, during the course of the process in which you were applying for this passport, in July of 1954, were you requested to submit a non-Communist affidavit?
Mr. ROBESON: We had a long discussion—with my counsel, who is in the room, Mr. [Leonard B.] Boudin—with the State Department, about just such an affidavit and I was very precise not only in the application but with the State Department, headed by Mr. Henderson and Mr. McLeod, that under no conditions would I think of signing any such affidavit, that it is a complete contradiction of the rights of American citizens. 1
It still exists as the House Judiciary Committee.2
Media: a political action group co-founded by James Kevin McGuinness, issued a pamphlet written by Ayn Rand and entitled "Screen Guide for Americans". It advised film producers on the avoidance of "subtle communistic touches" in their films. The pamphlet's advice was encapsulated in a list of ideological prohibitions, such as - "Don't Smear the Free Enterprise System", - "Don't Smear Industrialists", - "Don't Smear Wealth", - "Don't Smear the Profit Motive", - "Don't Deify 'the Common Man'", and - "Don't Glorify the Collective." 3
These still apply today - "advice" upheld by the media establishment.
#antifa #huac #robeson #blacklist
- "You Are the Un-Americans, and You Ought to be Ashamed of Yourselves": Paul Robeson Appears Before HUAC - historymatters.gmu.edu — https://historymatters.gmu.edu/d/6440/ ↩︎
- House Un-American Activities Committee - Wikipedia - en.wikipedia.org — https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/House_Un-American_Activities_Committee ↩︎
- Hollywood blacklist - Wikipedia - en.wikipedia.org — https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hollywood_blacklist#Background Reformatted into a list. ↩︎
#US #USA #american #capitalism #politics #anticommunism #mccarthyism #history #Hollywood #mindmanipulation -
Nearly 80 years after McCarthyism, Jane Fonda relaunches Committee for the First Amendment: ‘The stakes are too high’ -CNN
Entertainment• 3 min read
Nearly 80 years after McCarthyism, Jane Fonda relaunches Committee for the First Amendment: ‘The stakes are too high’
By Elizabeth Wagmeister, 14 hr ago
Jane Fonda at the 78th annual Cannes Film Festival at Palais des Festivals in Cannes, France on May 24. Vittorio Zunino Celotto / Getty ImagesEight decades after Hollywood legends like Henry Fonda, Lucille Ball, Humphrey Bogart, Frank Sinatra and Judy Garland launched the Committee for the First Amendment to stand up to McCarthyism, Jane Fonda is bringing back the organization at a time she calls “the most frightening moment of my life.”
The younger Fonda issued a plea to her Hollywood community in a letter shared with CNN, asking her peers to join the relaunched committee, writing, “I’m 87 years old. I’ve seen war, repression, protest, and backlash. I’ve been celebrated, and I’ve been branded an enemy of the state. But I can tell you this: this is the most frightening moment of my life.”
“When I feel scared, I look to history,” Fonda wrote. “I wish there were a secret playbook with all the answers – but there never has been.” She went on to underscore the value of solidarity and “binding together, finding bravery in numbers too big to ignore, and standing up for one another.”
“That’s why I believe the time is now to relaunch the Committee for the First Amendment – the same Committee my father, Henry Fonda, joined with other artists during the McCarthy era, when so many were silenced or even imprisoned simply for their words and their craft.”
More than 550 Hollywood figures have joined Fonda’s fight, adding their names as supporters of her newly relaunched committee, with signatories include including Aaron Sorkin, Barbra Streisand, Glenn Close, Gracie Abrams, JJ Abrams, John Legend, Julia Louis-Dreyfus, Julianne Moore, Kerry Washington, Larry David, Lily Tomlin, Natalie Portman, Nikki Glaser, Patti LuPone, Pedro Pascal, Quinta Brunson, Rob Reiner, Rosie O’Donnell, Sean Penn, Spike Lee, Viola Davis, Wanda Sykes, Winona Ryder, Whoopi Goldberg and more.
Continue/Read Original Article Here: Nearly 80 years after McCarthyism, Jane Fonda relaunches Committee for the First Amendment: ‘The stakes are too high’ | CNN
#2025 #America #CNN #CommitteeForTheFirstAmendment #DonaldTrump #Education #FirstAmendment #FreedomOfSpeech #Health #HerFather #History #JaneFonda #Libraries #Library #LibraryOfCongress #McCarthyism #Opinion #Politics #Reading #Resistance #Science #Trump #TrumpAdministration #UnitedStates
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Nearly 80 years after McCarthyism, Jane Fonda relaunches Committee for the First Amendment: ‘The stakes are too high’ -CNN
Entertainment• 3 min read
Nearly 80 years after McCarthyism, Jane Fonda relaunches Committee for the First Amendment: ‘The stakes are too high’
By Elizabeth Wagmeister, 14 hr ago
Jane Fonda at the 78th annual Cannes Film Festival at Palais des Festivals in Cannes, France on May 24. Vittorio Zunino Celotto / Getty ImagesEight decades after Hollywood legends like Henry Fonda, Lucille Ball, Humphrey Bogart, Frank Sinatra and Judy Garland launched the Committee for the First Amendment to stand up to McCarthyism, Jane Fonda is bringing back the organization at a time she calls “the most frightening moment of my life.”
The younger Fonda issued a plea to her Hollywood community in a letter shared with CNN, asking her peers to join the relaunched committee, writing, “I’m 87 years old. I’ve seen war, repression, protest, and backlash. I’ve been celebrated, and I’ve been branded an enemy of the state. But I can tell you this: this is the most frightening moment of my life.”
“When I feel scared, I look to history,” Fonda wrote. “I wish there were a secret playbook with all the answers – but there never has been.” She went on to underscore the value of solidarity and “binding together, finding bravery in numbers too big to ignore, and standing up for one another.”
“That’s why I believe the time is now to relaunch the Committee for the First Amendment – the same Committee my father, Henry Fonda, joined with other artists during the McCarthy era, when so many were silenced or even imprisoned simply for their words and their craft.”
More than 550 Hollywood figures have joined Fonda’s fight, adding their names as supporters of her newly relaunched committee, with signatories include including Aaron Sorkin, Barbra Streisand, Glenn Close, Gracie Abrams, JJ Abrams, John Legend, Julia Louis-Dreyfus, Julianne Moore, Kerry Washington, Larry David, Lily Tomlin, Natalie Portman, Nikki Glaser, Patti LuPone, Pedro Pascal, Quinta Brunson, Rob Reiner, Rosie O’Donnell, Sean Penn, Spike Lee, Viola Davis, Wanda Sykes, Winona Ryder, Whoopi Goldberg and more.
Continue/Read Original Article Here: Nearly 80 years after McCarthyism, Jane Fonda relaunches Committee for the First Amendment: ‘The stakes are too high’ | CNN
#2025 #America #CNN #CommitteeForTheFirstAmendment #DonaldTrump #Education #FirstAmendment #FreedomOfSpeech #Health #HerFather #History #JaneFonda #Libraries #Library #LibraryOfCongress #McCarthyism #Opinion #Politics #Reading #Resistance #Science #Trump #TrumpAdministration #UnitedStates
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Nearly 80 years after McCarthyism, Jane Fonda relaunches Committee for the First Amendment: ‘The stakes are too high’ -CNN
Entertainment• 3 min read
Nearly 80 years after McCarthyism, Jane Fonda relaunches Committee for the First Amendment: ‘The stakes are too high’
By Elizabeth Wagmeister, 14 hr ago
Jane Fonda at the 78th annual Cannes Film Festival at Palais des Festivals in Cannes, France on May 24. Vittorio Zunino Celotto / Getty ImagesEight decades after Hollywood legends like Henry Fonda, Lucille Ball, Humphrey Bogart, Frank Sinatra and Judy Garland launched the Committee for the First Amendment to stand up to McCarthyism, Jane Fonda is bringing back the organization at a time she calls “the most frightening moment of my life.”
The younger Fonda issued a plea to her Hollywood community in a letter shared with CNN, asking her peers to join the relaunched committee, writing, “I’m 87 years old. I’ve seen war, repression, protest, and backlash. I’ve been celebrated, and I’ve been branded an enemy of the state. But I can tell you this: this is the most frightening moment of my life.”
“When I feel scared, I look to history,” Fonda wrote. “I wish there were a secret playbook with all the answers – but there never has been.” She went on to underscore the value of solidarity and “binding together, finding bravery in numbers too big to ignore, and standing up for one another.”
“That’s why I believe the time is now to relaunch the Committee for the First Amendment – the same Committee my father, Henry Fonda, joined with other artists during the McCarthy era, when so many were silenced or even imprisoned simply for their words and their craft.”
More than 550 Hollywood figures have joined Fonda’s fight, adding their names as supporters of her newly relaunched committee, with signatories include including Aaron Sorkin, Barbra Streisand, Glenn Close, Gracie Abrams, JJ Abrams, John Legend, Julia Louis-Dreyfus, Julianne Moore, Kerry Washington, Larry David, Lily Tomlin, Natalie Portman, Nikki Glaser, Patti LuPone, Pedro Pascal, Quinta Brunson, Rob Reiner, Rosie O’Donnell, Sean Penn, Spike Lee, Viola Davis, Wanda Sykes, Winona Ryder, Whoopi Goldberg and more.
Continue/Read Original Article Here: Nearly 80 years after McCarthyism, Jane Fonda relaunches Committee for the First Amendment: ‘The stakes are too high’ | CNN
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Nearly 80 years after McCarthyism, Jane Fonda relaunches Committee for the First Amendment: ‘The stakes are too high’ -CNN
Entertainment• 3 min read
Nearly 80 years after McCarthyism, Jane Fonda relaunches Committee for the First Amendment: ‘The stakes are too high’
By Elizabeth Wagmeister, 14 hr ago
Jane Fonda at the 78th annual Cannes Film Festival at Palais des Festivals in Cannes, France on May 24. Vittorio Zunino Celotto / Getty ImagesEight decades after Hollywood legends like Henry Fonda, Lucille Ball, Humphrey Bogart, Frank Sinatra and Judy Garland launched the Committee for the First Amendment to stand up to McCarthyism, Jane Fonda is bringing back the organization at a time she calls “the most frightening moment of my life.”
The younger Fonda issued a plea to her Hollywood community in a letter shared with CNN, asking her peers to join the relaunched committee, writing, “I’m 87 years old. I’ve seen war, repression, protest, and backlash. I’ve been celebrated, and I’ve been branded an enemy of the state. But I can tell you this: this is the most frightening moment of my life.”
“When I feel scared, I look to history,” Fonda wrote. “I wish there were a secret playbook with all the answers – but there never has been.” She went on to underscore the value of solidarity and “binding together, finding bravery in numbers too big to ignore, and standing up for one another.”
“That’s why I believe the time is now to relaunch the Committee for the First Amendment – the same Committee my father, Henry Fonda, joined with other artists during the McCarthy era, when so many were silenced or even imprisoned simply for their words and their craft.”
More than 550 Hollywood figures have joined Fonda’s fight, adding their names as supporters of her newly relaunched committee, with signatories include including Aaron Sorkin, Barbra Streisand, Glenn Close, Gracie Abrams, JJ Abrams, John Legend, Julia Louis-Dreyfus, Julianne Moore, Kerry Washington, Larry David, Lily Tomlin, Natalie Portman, Nikki Glaser, Patti LuPone, Pedro Pascal, Quinta Brunson, Rob Reiner, Rosie O’Donnell, Sean Penn, Spike Lee, Viola Davis, Wanda Sykes, Winona Ryder, Whoopi Goldberg and more.
Continue/Read Original Article Here: Nearly 80 years after McCarthyism, Jane Fonda relaunches Committee for the First Amendment: ‘The stakes are too high’ | CNN
#2025 #America #CNN #CommitteeForTheFirstAmendment #DonaldTrump #Education #FirstAmendment #FreedomOfSpeech #Health #HerFather #History #JaneFonda #Libraries #Library #LibraryOfCongress #McCarthyism #Opinion #Politics #Reading #Resistance #Science #Trump #TrumpAdministration #UnitedStates
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Nearly 80 years after McCarthyism, Jane Fonda relaunches Committee for the First Amendment: ‘The stakes are too high’ -CNN
Entertainment• 3 min read
Nearly 80 years after McCarthyism, Jane Fonda relaunches Committee for the First Amendment: ‘The stakes are too high’
By Elizabeth Wagmeister, 14 hr ago
Jane Fonda at the 78th annual Cannes Film Festival at Palais des Festivals in Cannes, France on May 24. Vittorio Zunino Celotto / Getty ImagesEight decades after Hollywood legends like Henry Fonda, Lucille Ball, Humphrey Bogart, Frank Sinatra and Judy Garland launched the Committee for the First Amendment to stand up to McCarthyism, Jane Fonda is bringing back the organization at a time she calls “the most frightening moment of my life.”
The younger Fonda issued a plea to her Hollywood community in a letter shared with CNN, asking her peers to join the relaunched committee, writing, “I’m 87 years old. I’ve seen war, repression, protest, and backlash. I’ve been celebrated, and I’ve been branded an enemy of the state. But I can tell you this: this is the most frightening moment of my life.”
“When I feel scared, I look to history,” Fonda wrote. “I wish there were a secret playbook with all the answers – but there never has been.” She went on to underscore the value of solidarity and “binding together, finding bravery in numbers too big to ignore, and standing up for one another.”
“That’s why I believe the time is now to relaunch the Committee for the First Amendment – the same Committee my father, Henry Fonda, joined with other artists during the McCarthy era, when so many were silenced or even imprisoned simply for their words and their craft.”
More than 550 Hollywood figures have joined Fonda’s fight, adding their names as supporters of her newly relaunched committee, with signatories include including Aaron Sorkin, Barbra Streisand, Glenn Close, Gracie Abrams, JJ Abrams, John Legend, Julia Louis-Dreyfus, Julianne Moore, Kerry Washington, Larry David, Lily Tomlin, Natalie Portman, Nikki Glaser, Patti LuPone, Pedro Pascal, Quinta Brunson, Rob Reiner, Rosie O’Donnell, Sean Penn, Spike Lee, Viola Davis, Wanda Sykes, Winona Ryder, Whoopi Goldberg and more.
Continue/Read Original Article Here: Nearly 80 years after McCarthyism, Jane Fonda relaunches Committee for the First Amendment: ‘The stakes are too high’ | CNN
#2025 #America #CNN #CommitteeForTheFirstAmendment #DonaldTrump #Education #FirstAmendment #FreedomOfSpeech #Health #HerFather #History #JaneFonda #Libraries #Library #LibraryOfCongress #McCarthyism #Opinion #Politics #Reading #Resistance #Science #Trump #TrumpAdministration #UnitedStates
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@janefonda.com has restarted her father's #CommitteeForTheFirstAmendment b/c we live in an era of New #McCarthyism with the US Government actively punishing citizens for their speech. (Different from popular grassroots backlash AKA #canceling, & different from private corps enforcing T&Cs)
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How it's going:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FNPwLgsXclU
https://piped.video/watch?v=FNPwLgsXclU
https://inv.nadeko.net/watch?v=FNPwLgsXclU
#uspol #politics #Antifa #Trump #DonaldTrump #MAGA #Project2025 #TrumpAdministration #TrumpAdministration2025 #SecondTrumpAdministration #McCarthyism #BrianTylerCohen #BrianTylerCohenNews #MarcElias #DemocracyDocket #DemocracyWatch