A quotation from Edward R. Murrow
We must not confuse dissent with disloyalty.
Edward R. Murrow (1908-1965) American journalist
Commentary (1954-03-09), “A Report on Senator Joseph R. McCarthy,” See It Now, CBS TV
Sourcing, notes: wist.info/murrow-edward-r/2931…
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #joemccarthy #edwardrmurrow #redscare #treason #disagreement #disloyalty #dissent #freepress #freespeech #freedomofconscience #freedomofspeech #freedomofthepress #freedomofthought #witchhunt
Today in Labor History May 13, 1960: San Francisco Police violently attacked university students who were nonviolently protesting HUAC (House Un-American Committee) hearings. After protesters were denied entrance to the meeting, police attacked and swept them out of City Hall's rotunda and down the stairs with fire hoses. 12 people hospitalized (including eight police, mostly from exhaustion). 64 were arrested. Charges were dropped against all but one, who was acquitted in a jury trial. The hearings were led by the infamous Joe McCarthy. They would come into union towns like Chicago, San Francisco and Seattle, and issue subpoenas to all the progressives and radicals in the town, especially union leaders, many of whom were communists, or had communist ties. The only defense was to take the Fifth Amendment. The consequence of that was that you would usually lose your job, your name would be plastered in the papers, and your kids would be mistreated in school. Alternatively, you could take the First, like the Hollywood Ten did. For that, you’d be held in contempt of court sent to prison.
#workingclass #LaborHistory #huac #joemccarthy #mccarthyism #communism #freespeech #prison #police #PoliceBrutality #sanfrancisco #university #students
@flexghost It was #CBS (and the US Army) that brought down #JoeMcCarthy. Maybe there's still hope.
Recently, a number of media analysts who seem to have forgotten fascism is a word, have looked towards the dark days of McCarthyism in the US to find historical comparisons for the Trump regime's fascist attempts to transform American society into a white ethnostate dictatorship. There are valid reasons to use this comparison as there *are* eerie parallels to be found between the McCarthyist American right's ever expanding war against made up "communist infiltrators" and both Trump's actions, and the responses to it from a mainstream establishment far more committed to profit than civil rights; including the weaponization of fear to silence objections and quell dissent, the pre-marking of folks ideologically opposed to fascism for reprisal, and the willing capitulation in advance of much of the US establishment to a fascist agenda. Placed in the proper context, which includes noting that the Trump regime is merely installing a fascist dictatorship through a new type of McCarthyism, the analogy is quite useful for getting people to understand how the regime is operating, and how its methods might be countered.
The problem of course is that context is often missing. Few if any of the folks referencing McCarthyism would be willing to admit that even McCarthyism was just another fascist takeover project designed to eradicate dissent under the guise of "anti-communism." Hell, you can still find articles about Senator Joe McCarthy using conspiracy theories to defend Nazi war criminals who slaughtered American soldiers on the Smithsonian website (https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/senator-mccarthys-nazi-problem-180975174/) - at least until Trump deletes them. In that context, the use of McCarthyism as a more genteel accusation than fascism, which is how a lot of folks writing in mainstream sources appear to be using it, is nonsensical; McCarthyism was just a project to install fascism in America.
How successful that project was depends a lot of whether or not you think it ended with McCarthy's fall, the defeat of Goldwater in the 1964 US presidential election, the implosion of Nixon, or basically never; speaking for myself I'd say you don't get Trumpism without the US War on Terror, which in turn doesn't happen without the legacy of Vietnam and the COINTELPRO program, which ultimately spawned out of McCarthyism and the Cold War struggle against "communism." In that context, it's probably better to understand the modern American fascist movement as a descendent of McCarthyism, rather than a totally novel expression of it.
Furthermore, while the repressive tactics and ideological policing of the Trump regime patterns well with America's fifties-era Red Scare, it's important to understand that Trumpism has already moved beyond many of the goals the McCarthyists were trying to accomplish. While anti-communism often stood in for white nationalism, and supremacist power structures, it ostensibly focused on ideological policing; the Trump regime however is already targeting people for who, or what they are, not just what they believe; the anti trans pogrom, the bipartisan war on migrants, and War on Terror style Islamophobia have already paved the way for eliminationist policies in a way McCarthyism existed to accomplish.
Given the term's ability to both heighten awareness of, and still minimize the threat posed by the Trump regime's project to install a fascist dictatorship, I'm going to proceed cautiously with sharing articles adopting McCarthyism as a framework to explain the actions of Trump, and his apparent Secretary of Nazi Shit, Stephen Miller. In doing so however, I'm begging readers to keep in mind that Trumpism, is definitely a fascist project, and the fact that during the installation phase the regime's activities pattern match so closely with the 1950's US Red Scare says a lot more about how fascist this country already was, than it does about why there's a meaningful difference between McCarthyism and fascism in general.
#Fascism #Trump #McCarthyism #StephenMiller #USHistory #HistoricalModels #ColdWar #JoeMcCarthy #RedScare #CivilRights
Let's see if #CBS has the courage it once had, when it helped bring down #JoeMcCarthy's witchhunt:
https://alphahistory.com/coldwar/edward-r-murrow-on-mccarthy-1954/
One can only hope that #60Minutes, possibly the last brave #MSM standing, can take the heat and do its job.
https://apnews.com/article/cbs-60-minutes-lawsuit-trump-pelley-58339cc1a1eb52739bb365e2e8c6d8bc?utm_source=firefox-newtab-en-us
[14:09] Tadhg Furlong and Joe McCarthy ruled out of Ireland’s Six Nations clash with Scotland
Tadhg Furlong and Joe McCarthy have been ruled out of Ireland’s Six Nations clash against Scotland on Sunday, but Finlay Bealham and Mack Hansen are on track to be available.
https://www.independent.ie/sport/rugby/six-nations/tadhg-furlong-and-joe-mccarthy-ruled-out-of-irelands-six-nations-clash-with-scotland/a663751466.html
#TadhgFurlong #JoeMcCarthy #Ireland #SixNations #Scotland #Sunday #FinlayBealham #MackHansen
[16:15] Simon Easterby reveals Joe McCarthy’s absence from Six Nations opener down to ‘nasty blow’ to the head
Ireland interim head coach Simon Easterby has revealed that Joe McCarthy suffered a “nasty blow” to the head in training yesterday, which has ruled the Leinster lock out of Saturday’s Six Nations opener against England at the Aviva Stadium.
https://www.independent.ie/sport/rugby/six-nations/simon-easterby-reveals-joe-mccarthys-absence-from-six-nations-opener-down-to-nasty-blow-to-the-head/a164294981.html
#Ireland #SimonEasterby #JoeMcCarthy #yesterday #Leinster #Saturday #SixNations #England #theAvivaStadium
@dan613 @wdlindsy #CBS: the network of Walter Cronkite. Eric Severeid. #60Minutes. The network that helped bring down #JoeMcCarthy. Fred Friendly basically negotiated broadcast standards with the #FCC in the ‘50s.
How very far they’ve fallen. Cronkite must be spinning in his grave. Shame. Shame.
@dalfen Look no further than #Project2025 for the blueprint of another GOP term. Look no further than pre-WWII from #Hitler and post-WWII from #JoeMcCarthy for the EXACT rhetoric that #Trump and #Vance are using. Listen to the podcast #ULTRA by #RachaelMaddow for the detailed historical story of both the aforementioned. #politics #Project2025 #Project2025IsTrumpAndVance
@CdnCurmudgeon This is straight from the #Naziism playbook. Pit people against ‘the others’. Divide and conquer! You don’t even have to go back to #Hitler era to see it. Just go back to the #JoeMcCarthy era right after WWII. Same song and dance. Same as it ever was!
#trump #maga #gop #rnc #republicans #nra#cpac #conservatives #turningpointusa #redstate #conservative #johnbirchsociety #foxnews #newsmax #oan #maralago #momsforliberty #SaveAmericaPAC #ronaldreagan #jesus #barrygoldwater #joemccarthy #roycohn #glennbeck #michaelsavage #breitbart #prageru #tuckercarlson #lauraingraham #seanhannity
Today in Labor History May 13, 1960: San Francisco Police violently attacked university students who were nonviolently protesting HUAC (House Un-American Committee) hearings. After protesters were denied entrance to the meeting, police attacked and swept them out of City Hall's rotunda and down the stairs with fire hoses. 12 people hospitalized (including eight police, mostly from exhaustion). 64 were arrested. Charges were dropped against all but one, who was acquitted in a jury trial. The hearings were led by the infamous Joe McCarthy. They would come into union towns like Chicago, San Francisco and Seattle, and issue subpoenas to all the progressives and radicals in the town, especially union leaders, many of whom were communists, or had communist ties. The only defense was to take the Fifth Amendment. The consequence of that was that you would usually lose your job, your name would be plastered in the papers, and your kids would be mistreated in school. Alternatively, you could take the First, like the Hollywood Ten did. For that, you’d be held in contempt of court sent to prison.
#workingclass #LaborHistory #huac #joemccarthy #mccarthyism #communism #freespeech #prison #police #PoliceBrutality #sanfrancisco
Senator, may we not drop this?
We know he belonged to the Lawyers Guild.
Let us not assassinate this lad further, Senator.
You’ve done enough.
Have you no sense of decency, sir?
At long last,
have you left no sense of decency?
Joseph N. Welch destroys
#JoeMcCarthy
9 June 1954
#demagogues #fascists #witchhunts
Haven't seen the film "Good Night, and Good Luck" since it came out in 2005. But recently my housemate and I were discussing it.
Thought it was worth re-watching. In some ways, it's so similar to today's panic and bogus claims.
But it's so weird to recall that conservatives used to hate the Russians....
Opinion | How Harry Belafonte beat Joe McCarthy and the Red Scare
Amid all the celebrations of Harry Belafonte’s art and activism in the wake of his death last week at age 96, it is important to remember that he only narrowly escaped the fate of the many brilliant performers whose careers were derailed by Wisconsin Sen. Joe McCarthy and the “Red Scare” zealots who in the 1950s sought to silence singers and actors who dared to speak up for civil rights, economic justice and peace.
https://captimes.com/opinion/john-nichols/opinion-how-harry-belafonte-beat-joe-mccarthy-and-the-red-scare/article_3d994b47-5502-5b0e-8db7-04f52d6ac529.html #HarryBelafonte #JoeMcCarthy #RedScare
@iquanyin @SrRochardBunson
While we are at it
Don’t forget DJT first came to attention in the 70s when done for racial discrimination in housing. His lawyer in those years was Roy Cohn, a notorious skidmark.
If you are too young or poorly educated in US history, look up Wisconsin paragon of republican virtue, Joe McCarthy
#Trump #RoyCohn #JoeMcCarthy
Never thought anyone would be able to use this button again. Depressing to find it next to my Gorbachev button today. Welcome to the McCarthy era.
#McCarthy #KevinMcCarthy #JoeMcCarthy #GOP #GQP #Russia #Putin #Resist
