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northern_sentinel's avatar

(proper civil, not Republican civil)

I'm curious... what is the distinction?

Petunia Cat's avatar

History Corner: McCarthy either deliberately (I think deliberately) or just because he embraced some bugfuck crazy ideology went after labour movement people and liberal types. It wasn’t just people who had some relationship to “communism“ or the Communist Party. The fundamental McCarthy thing was to ask somebody who he knew was not a communist Are you now or have you ever been a communist? On TV. And because of the craziness afoot in the land people just believed these people were. The fact they denied it was taken as evidence it was true. 🤦🏻‍♀️ Calling someone a racist without adequate proof is not McCarthyism. The thing the person is accused of has to be something that the whole of society goes absolutely fucking apeshit about. And you would lose your job, be blacklisted so you couldn’t get another one. All the employers just went along with this, no one was making them. Also there were either non- or really crappy laws about having to have a good reason to fire somebody. Last bit: the “or ever were“ bit in McCarthy’s question was because it was the 50s, middle-age people had been young during the fight against Hitler and some of them joined the Communist Party because of that. Did nothing and quit a couple years later. He was trying to hoover up all of them.

Jan Brukman's avatar

name some, or one. Take yer pick. Othewise, stfu.

sgt. jmk de la résistance's avatar

If the background makes your eyes water... it's the Graham Norton Show!!

@anathema_device@bne.social's avatar

Gave it back to the kid, I hope. Because some parents are inclined to talk with their fists when kids get low marks, let alone try to cover it up

Diane (catlady)✔☕🥦🥨🎠🦇🏳️‍🌈's avatar

No, I posted it in the teacher lounge and we all got a good laugh about it for a while (because the kid left his identifying information).

BlackestNoobs's avatar

so who's on the list?

well probably Jimmy Woods, and Angelina Jolie's Dad ( you know the Midnight Cowboy), Zombie Reagan of course, hmmmm, Jay Z, ha ha ha i kid i kid, but yeah, probably....

Brian Fowler's avatar

I guess when Prince George signed the Patriot act?

Or earlier, when his party discovered they could just steal elections and the Supreme COurt would back them up?

Or maybe it was when China, one of the largest totalitarian states became the biggest trading partner of the US?

BlackestNoobs's avatar

if that's chic, chic got fat, and ugly

phoenix00's avatar

Yes, Terrance K Williams, you need to get your head checked.

phoenix00's avatar

So much whining, it should be served with crackers and cheese.

Villago Delenda Est  🇺🇦's avatar

You're behaving like Donald on this point. Stop it.

VandeGraf's avatar

Click 87 times to insure there are no bicycles, buses, or cars and you probably are not a robot. Neither are you a crazy, moronic black person voting for Trump.

Keith Taylor's avatar

As Ms. Messing, playing Grace onscreen, once said, "Sometimes I wish I was a Republican. I wouldn't have to worry about hurting people's feelings. I wouldn't have to worry about anything -- except not getting indicted."