I'm fairly sure Jim Crow and actual McCarthyism was worse than all of thesehttps://twitter.com/HeerJeet/status/1278371384888930304 …
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Liberal Republicans were not liberals
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I know! Wow! That's basic Reconstruction 101.
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The loyalty oaths and HUAC were terrible ideas, but it's a fantasy to think that we would not have had McCarthyism if liberals had just been less hostile to Communism.
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Also hostility to Communism was a legitimate political position for liberals to take
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Yes, it feels to me like, in a reflection of their political philosophies, Dem repression of the left has been more state- and institution-based, while the GOP has relied more on economic repression and cultural attack.
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the father of HUAC was Samuel Dickstein, NYC Democrat. Founded to counter pro-Nazi sentiment in US
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