Posted on 01/21/2022 9:46:40 AM PST by Don@VB
For over five decades, most American institutions eschewed tactics and agendas that reeked of McCarthyism. Which is why it is so disheartening and frightening to witness so many current institutions embracing the attributes of McCarthyism — especially the one institution where it should be absolute anathema, but where it is most pronounced — our college campuses....
Unfortunately, this includes my alma mater, the University of Virginia, whose founders, Thomas Jefferson and James Madison, were the individuals most responsible for our Declaration of Independence and Bill of Rights, the two pillars of American individual rights and freedoms. And just as the illuminating screen of television revealed the evils of McCarthyism, for those concerned with a free exchange of ideas and a level playing field of learning in higher education, it is important to shine the light of truth on the inappropriate and dangerous indoctrination flourishing at UVA...
...I knew things were bad — but not this bad. Mandatory doctrinal training, compelled speech, homogenized teaching and research, silenced and shamed students — is this what a University is supposed to be about? Thus, it was not surprising that one of the most revered professors in UVA’s two-hundred-year history, who has taught more students than any other professor since 1819, described the current state of affairs at UVA as a “tragedy.”
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McCarthyism?!
McCarthy was RIGHT!
This isn’t McCarthyism, its FASCISM!!
Yes, it’s right out of the Soviet Playbook.
Yep. McCarthy was right.
Agree, McCarthy was right.
Thank you!
I hate seeing that term used perjoratively. We’d be a lot better off today if people had listened to McCarthy then and taken appropriate action.
Blacklisted by History: The Untold Story of Senator Joe McCarthy and His Fight Against America’s Enemies
https://www.amazon.com/Blacklisted-History-Senator-McCarthy-Americas-ebook/dp/B000W94GOU
“McCarthyism” means being aware of and vigilant against espionage, infiltration and sabotage by foreign enemies, so what’s wrong with that?
McCarthy was correct.
And deep into FDRs White House.
....All should add Diana West’s “Red Thread” to reading lists.
“McCarthy was right”
Right message.
Flawed messenger, in that the press had a field day with McCarthy’s alcoholism. Some won’t agree, but there have been recent examples. It used to called a pile-on or dog pile, but I reakon the in vogue terminology is now gaslighting.
We studied this political period in polysci class decades ago, the prof was a cynical WH staffer during JFK and LBJ, the stories he could tell.
The gist of the article is about heavy-handed suppression of free speech at colleges and universities. I agree that McCarthyism was a poor analogy to what’s going on.
It makes my hackles rise to read “McCarthyism”. Nothing against you, Don@VB, it is the ignorant author, no matter how good his intentions are.
There are two types of people who accuse others of “McCarthyism”:
1.) People who are completely ignorant of who Joseph McCarthy was and what Joseph McCarthy did.
2.) People who fully understand who Joseph McCarthy was and what Joseph McCarthy did, and view him as a threat to their ideological goals.
Joseph McCarthy was an American hero who was destroyed by the American Left in conjunction with communists in the Soviet Union.
It is exactly the same way that people like Trump who are enemies of Leftists and viewed as threats to their ideological goals are being destroyed by Leftists in conjunction with the Chinese Communists today, using the same methods enhanced by technology, and for the exact same reasons.
Instead of McCarthyism, better characterized as Orwellian, Fascist, or Soviet suppression.
Nope. Just good old fashioned Communism.
There are a lot of us who feel exactly the same way about this.
Your recommendation of “Blacklisted by History” is well seconded by me. I have read many books on this subject, and that book by M. Stanon Evans is the best there is, with original research and personal experience by the author with the issue.
I have the hard copy, the audiobook, and the eBook of “Blacklisted by History” (and have marked up the eBook extensively for reference)
FreedomPoster, your observation that we’d be a lot better off today if people had listened to McCarthy then and taken appropriate action is SPOT ON. As it was, he purchased (with his life) several more decades for us where being a communist was widely seen as disreputable. Before that, dalliances with communism was seen by many as a harmless phase that people might go through in college, but after that, people did see it for what it was.
However, that all gave way in the Seventies and Eighties, and progressed to the point where someone like Clinton or Barack Obama could get elected. Before that, they couldn’t even have gotten a security clearance.
UVA is a public college. Is there any way Youngkin and the state government can defund this suppressionism??
Yes. I believe Younkin will be able to replace many, if not all, the boards of trustees at these state colleges.
ABSOLUTE agreement .. good post !
Thank you. It is a sore spot for me! (Everyone has a trigger, that one does it for me...:)
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