Its taught as McCarthy just being a wacky individual who wanted more power and could talk well, rather than being a well organized, tactical media and education campaign, coordinated by nearly all levels of government
He's also portrayed as being unintentionally right, even if he was a crank and just making things up. I learned in school that there actually were a bunch of communists in the government and that was definitely a bad thing, even if the reasons are vague and unspecified.
I think this was more cointelpro rather than HUAC, but those are similar in a sense. The reason that French New Wave star Jean Seberg was targeted by Edgar Hoover initially was that she donated like $500 to civil rights orgs. They discovered later she also donated to the black panthers, but like who cares, you don't have to be like a soviet agent to support them, and you only found that out after stalking a private citizen for donating to mainstream civil rights places. You also know that the reason she was on their radar at all is that they probably considered French New Wave to be secretly soviet or some shit.
Hoover was such a fucking monster. Everyone goes on about the Stasi like we didn't have our own corrupt and totally unaccountable networks of spies and assassins at home.
Its taught as McCarthy just being a wacky individual who wanted more power and could talk well, rather than being a well organized, tactical media and education campaign, coordinated by nearly all levels of government
He's also portrayed as being unintentionally right, even if he was a crank and just making things up. I learned in school that there actually were a bunch of communists in the government and that was definitely a bad thing, even if the reasons are vague and unspecified.
I think this was more cointelpro rather than HUAC, but those are similar in a sense. The reason that French New Wave star Jean Seberg was targeted by Edgar Hoover initially was that she donated like $500 to civil rights orgs. They discovered later she also donated to the black panthers, but like who cares, you don't have to be like a soviet agent to support them, and you only found that out after stalking a private citizen for donating to mainstream civil rights places. You also know that the reason she was on their radar at all is that they probably considered French New Wave to be secretly soviet or some shit.
I don't think the details matter, the point is that we need a never ending red scarce to protect our American way of false scarcity and poverty.
Hoover was such a fucking monster. Everyone goes on about the Stasi like we didn't have our own corrupt and totally unaccountable networks of spies and assassins at home.
The man who negotiated the Bretton Woods Agreement, Harry Dexter White, was a spy for the USSR.
The Manhattan Project was also riddled with spies.
Thank god. I can't imagine the horror of an unmatched, capitalist, nuclear power.