What is McCarthyism? And how did it happen? - Ellen Schrecker

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    In the 1950s, as part of a campaign to expose suspected Communists, thousands of individuals were aggressively investigated and questioned before government panels. Named after its most notorious practitioner, the phenomenon known as McCarthyism destroyed lives and careers. But how did this episode of political repression take off? Ellen Schrecker traces the history of McCarthyism.
    Lesson by Ellen Schrecker, animation by Patrick Smith.

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  • @gass995
    @gass995 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2830

    “Caused more damage than the threat it self” is the most American thing i have ever heard

    • @DeezN1892
      @DeezN1892 2 ปีที่แล้ว +40

      Especially now

    • @davidtucker9498
      @davidtucker9498 2 ปีที่แล้ว +7

      Did it though? Did it cause more damage than the threat itself? I for one don't think it did. McCarthy's mistake was focusing on Soviet infiltration of our government, which he did a somewhat good job at addressing, or at least shaming the Democrats into better policing their own, but the KGB's primary focus was in infiltrating and subverting American institutions like colleges and the media. They were playing the long game, and we are just now reaping the benefits of their work.

    • @samansaee1317
      @samansaee1317 2 ปีที่แล้ว +10

      @@davidtucker9498 spies unlike politicians are not idiots hence if you are a spy from for example a communist country you act as an anti communist so that you can acquire the information useful to said communist country. history has showed that the chance of mccarthy being a soviet spy is much higher than a union leader being one

    • @RawUndergroundMusic
      @RawUndergroundMusic ปีที่แล้ว +10

      The welfare state

    • @el_chico1313
      @el_chico1313 ปีที่แล้ว

      there is a joke in the series of narcos of a DEA agent complaining on how well funded the CIA is in combating some hungry disoriented left wing rebel geoups in the jungle while under-funded, shabby DEA agents have to take on multimillion dollar generating narco cartels with ties and influences throughout the USA

  • @limerence8365
    @limerence8365 5 ปีที่แล้ว +3548

    So it's like having an allergy. Your body over reacts to a foreign substance and it ends up harming you instead.
    That ending scared me!

    • @averyseriousguy5784
      @averyseriousguy5784 4 ปีที่แล้ว +20

      Limerence
      Weren’t that scared until I realized steve bannon is a thing

    • @abigaylegeisel
      @abigaylegeisel 4 ปีที่แล้ว +15

      Wolf in sheep's clothing

    • @satya4234
      @satya4234 4 ปีที่แล้ว +15

      Yeah, that's a good analogy!

    • @randalldegracia4208
      @randalldegracia4208 3 ปีที่แล้ว +7

      Thank you you just answered my hw

    • @Nationaliberty
      @Nationaliberty 3 ปีที่แล้ว +8

      I would love for my body to harm itself in order to cleanse me of _the communism_

  • @1805movie
    @1805movie ปีที่แล้ว +534

    I find it funny that it was okay for McCarthy to go after ordinary citizens, but him going after the military was what drew the line.

    • @jonahulichny9874
      @jonahulichny9874 ปีที่แล้ว +38

      While I don’t mean to justify what you just pointed out, but it kinda makes sense. The military was a pretty major tool for American foreign policy, especially against communism. McCarthy was probably failed because of its role against communism, especially in the Korean War.

    • @GoTfan-eb8tk
      @GoTfan-eb8tk ปีที่แล้ว +37

      There was a reason for that. Most of the previous people didn't have the public standing to challenge him openly.
      The Army however, did have the public standing, and they used it to full effect.

    • @crescent_sun482
      @crescent_sun482 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +6

      It's not exactly like there have been many communists in the US military anyway! I mean, August Willich, but he was just one dude... (and very dead by McCarthy times...) well, and that one handsome one in recent times... who didn't exist in the fifties.

    • @Tboy439
      @Tboy439 3 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@crescent_sun482 ...You have no idea what you are talking about!!! Unlike what you've been fed by the globalist media, McArthur had the Korean war won as he cleared the north all the way to the Chinese boarder, and then ordered the bridges be blown so the Chinese could not attack the Americans. George C Marshall countermanded that order which allowed the Chinese to pour over the boarder enmass and attack the Americans, while refusing to give McArthur the means to defend his men. The head of the Chinese army said...we never would have dared attack the Americans unless the American administration hadn't promised us that McArthur would not be given the forces to protect his men. And it was a lot worse than that if you'd care to hear it let me know.

    • @archiemelkonian
      @archiemelkonian หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      He was 100% right!!

  • @fastsnake1
    @fastsnake1 ปีที่แล้ว +248

    When I was taught this, my history teacher got the vice principal to convince us that somebody cheated on the midterm and we would either all have to re-do it, or fess up who did it. It was a... memorable way to teach us.

    • @mrspleasants8529
      @mrspleasants8529 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +8

      Sage.

    • @alextsele1919
      @alextsele1919 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +22

      Sounds like a good teacher.

    • @primenumberbuster404
      @primenumberbuster404 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +36

      I claim that History should have it's own practical demonstrations along with lessons. This is a great way of teaching.

    • @NEVERGIV3UP.
      @NEVERGIV3UP. หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      @@primenumberbuster404Exactly! Kind of like the Wave.

    • @ninanano
      @ninanano 10 วันที่ผ่านมา

      I bet innocent people got accused 😭

  • @raphuscucullatus7845
    @raphuscucullatus7845 5 ปีที่แล้ว +8348

    He's checking his list
    And he's checking it twice
    He's gonna find out if your a commie tonight

    • @ferns800
      @ferns800 4 ปีที่แล้ว +21

      Raphus cucullatus made me laugh

    • @flyingspacebrainedidiot
      @flyingspacebrainedidiot 4 ปีที่แล้ว +45

      *you’re**

    • @spicycake5501
      @spicycake5501 4 ปีที่แล้ว +96

      McCarthy is coming to tooooowwwn

    • @frut_jooos
      @frut_jooos 4 ปีที่แล้ว +33

      He sees you when you're sleeping, he knows u are commie

    • @FreedomLoverCastro
      @FreedomLoverCastro 4 ปีที่แล้ว +14

      Santa claus (karl marx) is coming to town!!

  • @raquelreya8943
    @raquelreya8943 7 ปีที่แล้ว +5156

    This is kinda what we criticized the communist for...

    • @360flyby
      @360flyby 7 ปีที่แล้ว +361

      Snowcold how did you jump to that? it's quite clear that she was saying that the US in it's bid to stop communism did the same as the communist.

    • @snowcold5932
      @snowcold5932 7 ปีที่แล้ว +135

      360flyby Darkness cannot drive out darkness, only light can do that.
      Hatred cannot drive out hatred, only love can do that.

    • @raquelreya8943
      @raquelreya8943 7 ปีที่แล้ว +129

      The problem with this world is that we alway think about the worse in bad situations and not the solution

    • @nguyenhien8080
      @nguyenhien8080 7 ปีที่แล้ว +65

      To be fair, the communist countries also did something similar to this. Source: I'm someone who lives in one of the few communist countries.

    • @rockcabbage
      @rockcabbage 7 ปีที่แล้ว +53

      Oh yeah, ending a handful of communists careers is basically the same thing as murdering more innocent civilians than the total death toll of both world wars combined, including the holocaust...

  • @The___Gambit894
    @The___Gambit894 3 ปีที่แล้ว +696

    Nobody:
    USA: I used authoritarianism to destory authoritarianism.

    • @romanlegion2621
      @romanlegion2621 3 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      Problem with that is?

    • @romanlegion2621
      @romanlegion2621 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @Karl Marx ...Says the pinko

    • @romanlegion2621
      @romanlegion2621 3 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      @Karl Marx And I should with a guy named “Karl Marx”

    • @romanlegion2621
      @romanlegion2621 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @Karl Marx mad at what? I’m happy 😃

    • @f-35alightningii79
      @f-35alightningii79 3 ปีที่แล้ว +47

      @@romanlegion2621 You seem mad. The fact that you had to write “I’m happy” ironically does little to help your case.

  • @GOODYGOODGOOD789
    @GOODYGOODGOOD789 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +96

    One of my most memorable history classes in high school was when the topic was first brought and we played a little game with it. All of the students were separated into groups and all students were given cards but at least one student in each group was given a card with a dot on it if we guessed correctly who had the dot and if we had the dot and no one guessed us we would get a piece of candy. We were all suspicious of each other and we all tried to find out what the other was hiding we all guessed that someone was hiding someone because someone else told us that at least one person in this group was hiding something.

    • @tyronebonquaviusdaquan3562
      @tyronebonquaviusdaquan3562 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +8

      amogus..

    • @navyntune8158
      @navyntune8158 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +5

      ​@@tyronebonquaviusdaquan3562Among Us indeed, fits the gameplay.

  • @johndeclan69
    @johndeclan69 4 ปีที่แล้ว +3950

    USSR: bans modern art, making it illegal to have in your home
    USA: write that down! Write that down!

    • @gregorymalchuk272
      @gregorymalchuk272 4 ปีที่แล้ว +131

      It's totally consistent. Modern art was considered highly caustic and corrosive to the soul of a people. That's why the Soviets only ever allowed Socialist Realsim, which wasn't much different from National Socialist Germany. But they exported and encouraged modern art in capitalist countries. Picasso was literally a member of the Comintern.

    • @aldo970
      @aldo970 3 ปีที่แล้ว +96

      Its interesting to me how the things usa criticized the urss to do to his people did it too

    • @egormoryganov
      @egormoryganov 3 ปีที่แล้ว +25

      Well, though there were several anti-modernist campaigns under Soviets, it was all about social recognition and jobs for artists. As far as I know, just having any piece of art at home - or even exposing it - was never an issue.

    • @cantspeakcantspeak79
      @cantspeakcantspeak79 3 ปีที่แล้ว +13

      @@gregorymalchuk272 but by banning them breaks the first rule the founding fathers bragged America to keep it.
      freedom of speech

    • @EuropeanQoheleth
      @EuropeanQoheleth 3 ปีที่แล้ว +16

      What ridiculous hyperbole. America's a libertine hellhole, not a totalitarian dystopia.

  • @blaskowitz7000
    @blaskowitz7000 5 ปีที่แล้ว +4293

    "Those who sacrifice liberty for security deserve neither"

    • @DCBfanboy
      @DCBfanboy 5 ปีที่แล้ว +80

      Not true.

    • @aniketpandey2007
      @aniketpandey2007 5 ปีที่แล้ว +87

      Benjamin Franklin was a true statesman

    • @Ghennesph
      @Ghennesph 5 ปีที่แล้ว +146

      And will lose both.

    • @Xendrius
      @Xendrius 5 ปีที่แล้ว +26

      Says the guy who probably believes alqaida did 9/11.

    • @aniketpandey2007
      @aniketpandey2007 5 ปีที่แล้ว +93

      @@Xendrius And maybe thats the truth. To hoax something on such a large scale is simply impossible, apart from being highly improbable. Lets suppose you wish to bomb your own country to gain support for a war, would you really hit the beating heart of your financial capital ?? That too when you could do the same by blowing up a taxi or two ??

  • @paulandreigillesania5359
    @paulandreigillesania5359 3 ปีที่แล้ว +26

    "Imagine that one day before a government panel ... you are repeatedly questioned about your political views, accused of disloyalty, and asked to incriminate your friends and associates."
    Me, a Filipino: Imagine?

  • @waldenwonders
    @waldenwonders 2 ปีที่แล้ว +107

    I love everything Patrick Smith animates! He’s very talented.

    • @PatrickSmithAnimation
      @PatrickSmithAnimation 2 ปีที่แล้ว +15

      too kind sir. this particular ted ed was really interesting to draw.. prob my fav

    • @waldenwonders
      @waldenwonders 2 ปีที่แล้ว +9

      @@PatrickSmithAnimation That’s awesome, man! I really enjoyed the Hunter S. Thompson blank on blank video you did. Again, great work, my friend!

    • @PatrickSmithAnimation
      @PatrickSmithAnimation 2 ปีที่แล้ว +9

      @@waldenwonders yeah man, the later blank on blanks, like hunter or stephen king, were def a lot better than the early episodes.. i cringe at some of the early ones hahaha

    • @KittyTGQ
      @KittyTGQ หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      @@PatrickSmithAnimation My teacher showed this to the class today, and I could instantly tell you animated it! I was very shocked! As always, spectacular work!

    • @PatrickSmithAnimation
      @PatrickSmithAnimation หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@KittyTGQ awesome!! which school?

  • @NymphsOrisons
    @NymphsOrisons 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1641

    POV: You're a teacher and you've been teaching The Crucible for 7 years...

    • @zorafilms
      @zorafilms 2 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      Those witches don't exist. Communists do.

    • @NymphsOrisons
      @NymphsOrisons 2 ปีที่แล้ว +11

      @@zorafilms well, witches do exist. So do communists.

    • @Starcr8zy
      @Starcr8zy 2 ปีที่แล้ว +15

      LOL I'M ON THAT MODULE NOW.

    • @LindseyWood-lu1vr
      @LindseyWood-lu1vr 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Looking for something fresh!

    • @MrGamelover23
      @MrGamelover23 2 ปีที่แล้ว +13

      @@zorafilms the whole point of The crucible was that it was an allegory for the red scare.

  • @seanstone3232
    @seanstone3232 3 ปีที่แล้ว +5220

    Ah yes, the original cancel culture...

    • @banjokingoftheseamonkeys6079
      @banjokingoftheseamonkeys6079 3 ปีที่แล้ว +110

      Spot on

    • @hixidom2274
      @hixidom2274 3 ปีที่แล้ว +218

      Cancel culture is just one symptom of communist infiltration and indoctrination. All evidence points to McCarthy being right all along.

    • @Nolant.
      @Nolant. 3 ปีที่แล้ว +558

      Hix Idom McCarthy we know it’s you

    • @whattawhaddaya6561
      @whattawhaddaya6561 3 ปีที่แล้ว +190

      Except it’s the right-wing version and perhaps more damaging than the left one.

    • @kenneth9452
      @kenneth9452 3 ปีที่แล้ว +36

      @Negasso Kadir Democrats like Henry Ford supported the Nazis, Democrats refuesed to let Jews in American and sent them back to Germany, Democrats locked up thousands in internment camps without any rights, Democrats support strict gun control, Democrats support attacking people for their beilefs, they cause billions in damages ( look at the riots) and don't bother calling the riots right wing because the left is bailing out those rioters.

  • @trishaangelinejavier9341
    @trishaangelinejavier9341 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +29

    Ted ed never dissapoint with their content and animation, you'll always have a lot to learn whenever you watch their informative videos

  • @jrk9679
    @jrk9679 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +8

    “But evidence accumulated from a variety of sources-including Soviet archives-since the end of the Cold War in the early 1990s shows that McCarthy’s charges were, in numerous cases, neither false nor hysterical-but correct.“
    From The Vindication of Joseph McCarthy by Andrew Bernstein

  • @somegirl4631
    @somegirl4631 5 ปีที่แล้ว +1776

    _"sometimes humans fear their enemy so much, that they _*_become_*_ their enemy themselves"_

    • @GunsandHondas
      @GunsandHondas 4 ปีที่แล้ว +28

      Kinda reminds me to starwars...

    • @user-uq3um5nq7d
      @user-uq3um5nq7d 4 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      Exactly

    • @arch4ngel
      @arch4ngel 3 ปีที่แล้ว +42

      “fear leads to anger, anger leads to hate, hate leads to suffering...”

    • @joshuaflores8532
      @joshuaflores8532 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      Very true.

    • @beckc850
      @beckc850 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Kinda playing out now

  • @alejandromendez488
    @alejandromendez488 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1926

    This is basically a political version of the Salem witch trials.

    • @gaayathribinoj6865
      @gaayathribinoj6865 3 ปีที่แล้ว +129

      Spot on! The Crucible (a famous play about those witch hunts) was written as an allegory for McCarthyism

    • @chickenfishhybrid44
      @chickenfishhybrid44 2 ปีที่แล้ว +11

      Except there never were witches... communists actually existed in the US. A communist scientist from the US leaked info on our nucleur wepaons development to the Soviets...

    • @Supercomet13A
      @Supercomet13A 2 ปีที่แล้ว +46

      "there were no witches at those trials, but there were communists"

    • @Tyler_W
      @Tyler_W 2 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      Sure, except a better comparison would be if Salem was actually full of bonafide witches. McCarthy is attributed a lot of things he didn't actually do, but his biggest mistake was actually thinking the legitimate problem he was addressing wasn't worse than he believed.

    • @jjrcmr3789
      @jjrcmr3789 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      @@chickenfishhybrid44 there never were witches?! That’s what you think

  • @RAFAEl78ist
    @RAFAEl78ist 3 ปีที่แล้ว +37

    They (the Nixon government) also taught the comunist hunting activities to the military and police forces here in Chile, whith torture and murder included. Oh, and they also promoted and financed the military punch (military coup, according to google translator) in 1973

    • @RAFAEl78ist
      @RAFAEl78ist 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@Paonporteur do ur own reserxh if u don't believe me

    • @user-justsomeone
      @user-justsomeone 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      they kill all communism in south vietnam and south korea during cold war

    • @sygneg7348
      @sygneg7348 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@Paonporteur Look up Operation Condor and military generals such as Jorge Rafael Videla and Augustino Pinochet. Those people were monsters, funded by the US.

  • @57highland
    @57highland ปีที่แล้ว +12

    I once tried to explain to my father the limitations of American power, military and otherwise, on the rest of the world (i.e., mainly the Third World), and he said, "When I was in high school, one of my teachers told us that the United States was the greatest country in the world, and that we (the U.S.) should be able to do whatever we want."
    My father was in high school from 1948 to 1952. (Back in the days when high schools were commonly named for iconic American presidents. My father attended Thomas Jefferson High School. Coincidentally, my mother attended James Madison High School.)
    I didn't think of it at the time, but later I wondered if the teacher who made that apparently memorable remark to his or her impressionable students had previously been required to take a "loyalty oath" and feared the possibility of losing his or her job should he or she describe U.S. power and prestige as anything less than suggested in the quote, and then being blacklisted.

    • @jonnyd9351
      @jonnyd9351 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      You should consider that during that time period, your fathers teacher was correct😂. The US had total power hegemony over the entire world.

    • @googane7755
      @googane7755 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      ​@@jonnyd9351Saying that it should be able to do whatever it wants is wrong tho and it sounds forced.

  • @acetate909
    @acetate909 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2880

    Can you imagine what it must have been like to see politicians accusing each other of being Russian tools. It's a good thing we don't see that happening anymore.

    • @DjMaxi005
      @DjMaxi005 3 ปีที่แล้ว +146

      *laughing in Russiagate*

    • @acetate909
      @acetate909 3 ปีที่แล้ว +122

      @@DA-wx9oz
      What? What's happening now is modern day Mccarthyism. How could you watch this and not connect it to what's going on today? Did you read the Mueller report? Do you have any idea wtf is going on? I didn't vote for Trump but it's obvious that Russiagate is fake. I guess it was meant to trick people like you.

    • @Jose04537
      @Jose04537 3 ปีที่แล้ว +8

      @@DA-wx9oz Again with beating that death horse?

    • @f-35alightningii79
      @f-35alightningii79 3 ปีที่แล้ว +22

      @@acetate909 Did you read the Mueller report...

    • @acetate909
      @acetate909 3 ปีที่แล้ว +35

      @@f-35alightningii79
      I've read the relevant parts, most of it is legal nonsense and qualifier for more nonsense. Nothing in the Report shows Trump is beholden to Russia. There were maybe some process crimes committed- like perjury and obstruction of justice -but even those crimes were not substantiated and only occurred due to the commission of this fraudulent investigation. Several FBI agents are being prosecuted after admitting to forging evidence and lying under oath. The Mueller Report is state propaganda, and its not even good propaganda. This is all so transparently BS.

  • @noahk258
    @noahk258 3 ปีที่แล้ว +733

    “If your a good enough debater you can argue anything is a national security threat”- Professor Erik Fogel.

    • @Morningstar_37
      @Morningstar_37 3 ปีที่แล้ว +24

      anything's a national security threat if you're brave enough

    • @crescent_sun482
      @crescent_sun482 8 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Let's see, then.
      Butter is a national security threat because it's causing heart disease and obesity among so many Americans!
      _Butterflies_ are a national security threat because they splat on windshields causing car crashes!
      _Capitalism_ is a national security threat because... well... just look at the Gilded Age and the Great Depression.

    • @johnr797
      @johnr797 7 หลายเดือนก่อน

      What does that even mean? Yeah, I get the message he's trying to put across in his words, but using that as a quote? If you're good enough at subverting institutions you can make people quote Fogel and have them disregard threats to national security.
      If you're a good enough debater you can argue anything isn't a national security threat. Thank you, Mr. Fogel. Sorry about your foreskin.

  • @resikin
    @resikin 3 ปีที่แล้ว +19

    Fantastic art, incredibly immersive and not distracting in the slightest!

  • @FeetFertilizer
    @FeetFertilizer 2 ปีที่แล้ว +17

    Please never stop making these they are so good to show in class!

  • @netnet_in_a_sweater9351
    @netnet_in_a_sweater9351 5 ปีที่แล้ว +2759

    Me: *hangs up a cool picture of my plunger*
    FBI: FBI OPEN UP

  • @keilanl1784
    @keilanl1784 7 ปีที่แล้ว +4311

    Can we just appreciate this awesome creative art?

    • @BobBob-yr4qo
      @BobBob-yr4qo 6 ปีที่แล้ว +13

      Keilan L the art is pretty good

    • @IggyTthunders
      @IggyTthunders 5 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      It's hard when it's dignifying barefaced lies.

    • @rokkfel4999
      @rokkfel4999 5 ปีที่แล้ว +9

      @@IggyTthunders explain?

    • @clipboss8052
      @clipboss8052 5 ปีที่แล้ว +23

      .. You just might be a Communist

    • @munendersingh5631
      @munendersingh5631 5 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Truer

  • @nahushkanitkar8194
    @nahushkanitkar8194 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +6

    Wasn't it proven later partially?

  • @hapticity706
    @hapticity706 2 ปีที่แล้ว +6

    As Europe and America bear witness to populist politics, Professor Papanek says he would not discount the possibility that a McCarthy could one day return.
    He says should that happen, it would be very difficult to combat and would require resistance from Americans in all walks of life.
    "It takes people with courage to stand up to people like McCarthy."

  • @daareondemon1899
    @daareondemon1899 4 ปีที่แล้ว +741

    Died three years after targeting the army "probably alcoholism"

    • @MamaFeng
      @MamaFeng 3 ปีที่แล้ว +107

      Yeah, he most likely died of alcoholism because these kind of people don't get assassinated.
      But people who want progress generally have such a crazy opposition that they *do* get killed, prime example: MLK.

    • @EuropeanQoheleth
      @EuropeanQoheleth 3 ปีที่แล้ว +39

      sigh Will Americans stop blaming everything on conspiracy theories? Correlation DOES NOT imply causation.

    • @theneedle6785
      @theneedle6785 3 ปีที่แล้ว +7

      How many Russian doctors have to accidentally fall out of Windows before anyone notices?

    • @BGNOLA
      @BGNOLA 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@MamaFeng Trying to stop a totalitarian regime from infiltrating your government is progressive.

    • @caseyrayharris.esquire489
      @caseyrayharris.esquire489 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      Right.. Epsteined. Perception is everything, Someone taught us, showed us. & there for we must share this with others. Create full pictures by exposing operation northwoods, project mk ultra, the Gulf of Tonkin incident, mcarthyism, JFK files withheld by Russian backed president. He had a trump tower moscow presidential sweet to give putin for free. Signed letter of intent during campaign. This is ted talks here. It's for real you all

  • @darthhodges
    @darthhodges 6 ปีที่แล้ว +153

    It wasn't the first time and it won't be the last. Skilled politicians know that you win not with facts and good ideas but by playing on people's emotions, and fear is one of the easiest to exploit.
    As a wise Muppet once said, "Fear leads to anger, anger leads to hate, hate leads to suffering." which applies perfectly here.

    • @57highland
      @57highland ปีที่แล้ว +11

      Herman Goering said the same when he was being interviewed during the Nuremberg trials.
      He said, "You do two things. One: You tell the people there is a threat to the nation. Two: You accuse anyone who disagrees with you of being disloyal."
      The doctor questioning him, an American, said, "That strategy could not succeed in the United States. The people can, and do, question their leaders."
      Goering: "It works under any political system: monarchy, dictatorship, or republic. *The people can always be brought to the bidding of their leaders."*

    • @harlequinsforlife
      @harlequinsforlife 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      Yoda

  • @tankinator451
    @tankinator451 ปีที่แล้ว +7

    Imagine hanging "bold and brash" in your house as a joke and having to appear in front of congress 3 days later because they think you're a communist.

  • @ragnarokim36
    @ragnarokim36 2 ปีที่แล้ว +66

    you know the American education system is failing when there are people who think McCarthyism is justified lmao

  • @mercce6750
    @mercce6750 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2622

    Nobody:
    McCarthy when someone shares a chocolate bar: COMMIEEEEE! COMIEEEEEE! REEEEEEEEEEE!

    • @ahlixemus8903
      @ahlixemus8903 4 ปีที่แล้ว +23

      Underrated Comment

    • @Silverdynamix
      @Silverdynamix 4 ปีที่แล้ว +119

      Sam O'nella Moment

    • @emmanystedt2393
      @emmanystedt2393 4 ปีที่แล้ว +16

      @@Silverdynamix I'm glad I wasn't the only one to get the reference

    • @DukeOfKidderminster
      @DukeOfKidderminster 4 ปีที่แล้ว +37

      That mentality never really went away did it?

    • @emmanystedt2393
      @emmanystedt2393 4 ปีที่แล้ว +11

      @@DukeOfKidderminster Afraid not

  • @eyuin5716
    @eyuin5716 7 ปีที่แล้ว +1508

    Those who don't learn from history are doomed to repeat it. Kinda like what's happening now

    • @jovan1198
      @jovan1198 7 ปีที่แล้ว +20

      Ęÿūį Æßñ They say history repeats itself, first as tragedy then as farce

    • @realscummy
      @realscummy 7 ปีที่แล้ว +11

      Jovan Emeric that is what Marx says...

    • @AvailableUsernameTed
      @AvailableUsernameTed 7 ปีที่แล้ว +11

      Those who don't learn from history are doomed to repeat it.

    • @jovan1198
      @jovan1198 7 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Pipe2DevNull iseewhatyoudidthere

    • @Dowlphin
      @Dowlphin 7 ปีที่แล้ว +41

      Those who don't learn from history will repeatedly play Doom.

  • @zurzakne-etra7069
    @zurzakne-etra7069 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +6

    anyone here because of Oppenheimer?

  • @NoName-hg6cc
    @NoName-hg6cc 3 ปีที่แล้ว +22

    "Those who would give up essential liberty to purchase a little temporary safety, deserve neither liberty nor safety."
    Benjamin Franklin
    Reading the comments seem like many forgot

  • @sheltertwo7957
    @sheltertwo7957 4 ปีที่แล้ว +704

    “Could it happen again?” -um yeah dude it’s happening right now

    • @volvob1884
      @volvob1884 4 ปีที่แล้ว +9

      Right now?

    • @RandomPerson-go5sn
      @RandomPerson-go5sn 4 ปีที่แล้ว +103

      Big Dab for sure, we just call it cancel culture.

    • @volvob1884
      @volvob1884 4 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      @Asura Khæñ Really? That's too bad

    • @malalalalala2985
      @malalalalala2985 4 ปีที่แล้ว +11

      Yeah Russiagate

    • @jack-yb1wk
      @jack-yb1wk 4 ปีที่แล้ว +110

      Pretty much yeah lol, the mainstream/corporate media try to smear non-establishment politicians (such as Bernie) as being support by the Russians or for being "Russian assets."

  • @bruhchamp16593
    @bruhchamp16593 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1599

    “If she weighs the same as a duck, she’s made of wood!”
    “And therefore...?”
    *“A WITCH! A WITCH! A WITCH!”*

    • @spudwesth
      @spudwesth 4 ปีที่แล้ว +12

      500 traitor ducks in the gov't.

    • @satya4234
      @satya4234 4 ปีที่แล้ว +31

      "BUUUUURN HEEER!!!!"

    • @unique_handle_1066
      @unique_handle_1066 4 ปีที่แล้ว +22

      r/unexpectedmontypython

    • @satya4234
      @satya4234 4 ปีที่แล้ว +15

      @@unique_handle_1066 Of course there's a subreddit for that lol

    • @ashleyfroud5015
      @ashleyfroud5015 3 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      "It's a fair cop."

  • @smickandily
    @smickandily 2 ปีที่แล้ว +24

    This is very uncanny. To know that the same wrongs have been perpetrated for so many years in this country is disheartening.

  • @unasperanza9803
    @unasperanza9803 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    Make people believe absurdities and they will commit atrocities- the last 2 years

  • @ellicdote2015
    @ellicdote2015 4 ปีที่แล้ว +662

    This Video: *’Says anything’*
    Me, with an essay due: *Write that down, write that down!*

    • @pietro4352
      @pietro4352 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Lynelli loooool

    • @jesusdiscipledon1499
      @jesusdiscipledon1499 4 ปีที่แล้ว +7

      Cite your source.

    • @kaslanakiana3927
      @kaslanakiana3927 4 ปีที่แล้ว +7

      And my darling, that is called “direct plagiarism”

    • @ellicdote2015
      @ellicdote2015 4 ปีที่แล้ว +24

      解忧曲 - I was actually taking notes for the essay to find evidence! Not to steal the content of the video- I couldn't make that very clear in the comment, but I was just taking notes and made sure I properly cited my sources when I finished! So no plagiarism here :D

    • @jesusdiscipledon1499
      @jesusdiscipledon1499 4 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      Lynelli
      Good. Keep it that way.

  • @betaace4428
    @betaace4428 7 ปีที่แล้ว +177

    Arthur Miller wrote "The Crucible" as a direct response to this. I got to be in it and it's shocking how well he nailed the idea down, using an actual witch hunt to symbolize this idea with the Salem witch trials. A genius of a man that refused to give any names of people that were thought to be communists when he was interrogated excellently captured the mob mentality and hysteria that happened in that time.

    • @FuzDoesStuff
      @FuzDoesStuff 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      There is also Fahrenheit 451

    • @FirstNameLastName-wt5to
      @FirstNameLastName-wt5to 8 หลายเดือนก่อน

      It’s just unfortunate that he took so many historical liberties with actual people and ended up spreading false history.

  • @DavidEvans_dle
    @DavidEvans_dle 15 วันที่ผ่านมา

    A trippy time in our American History - WACKED.
    Ted Talks are the BOSS.

  • @juanandrealvarezmeza6179
    @juanandrealvarezmeza6179 2 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    Me: has red blood
    The government: COMMIEE!!!

  • @drpattiethomas
    @drpattiethomas 7 ปีที่แล้ว +245

    This video has some historical errors. First, the house continued to investigate "unamerican activities" well into the 70s long after McCarthy was censured. Second, the blacklist also outlived McCarthy, not really fully ending until early to mid 60s. Finally, a sin of omission. Democrats participated in this witch hunt, most notably Robert Kennedy who assisted McCarthy directly and JFK used the "soft on communism" accusation against Nixon in 1960. This was more widespread and deeper than this video leads us to believe.

    • @mikuhatsunegoshujin
      @mikuhatsunegoshujin 6 ปีที่แล้ว

      save our souls

    • @awhodothey
      @awhodothey 6 ปีที่แล้ว +28

      Yeah, also of note is that the communist party usa actually was funded by Russia and the Verona code revealed that there actually were over a hundred communist spies in the state department...

    • @llepsnaci1
      @llepsnaci1 5 ปีที่แล้ว +7

      Those communists were doing good work to help the USSR save us from ourselves. McCarthy set us back hundreds of years because he made everyone afraid of accepting communism.

    • @supremecaffeine2633
      @supremecaffeine2633 5 ปีที่แล้ว +23

      @@llepsnaci1 America doesn't need some idealistic poison that's killed nearly 100 million people.

    • @defiy2921
      @defiy2921 5 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Irrelevant

  • @PhilipYayson
    @PhilipYayson 5 ปีที่แล้ว +1221

    Land of the free...

    • @albertlintos8183
      @albertlintos8183 5 ปีที่แล้ว +117

      Nobody can be free under communism.

    • @loser7128
      @loser7128 5 ปีที่แล้ว +69

      Albert Lintos you’re wrong, communism is literally anarchy

    • @heliogabriel8125
      @heliogabriel8125 5 ปีที่แล้ว +166

      "Land of the free
      You can be anything you want
      Think and act of any way you want to
      Except if you don't agree with the government
      American dream"

    • @trillionbones89
      @trillionbones89 4 ปีที่แล้ว +82

      ...home of the paranoid.

    • @polskastrong8558
      @polskastrong8558 4 ปีที่แล้ว +20

      @@heliogabriel8125 Land is free comrade but if you disagree off to gulag you go, to join the 100 million others "THE -ISM OF PEAACE BROS"

  • @akshaybinayke
    @akshaybinayke 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +5

    Cheers to all those who came to watch this after watching Oppenheimer 🍻😅

  • @cg0825
    @cg0825 2 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    The Arthur Miller play The Crucible was a portrayal of the Salem witch trials in the late 17th century, however it was written during the McCarthy era because he wanted to draw a direct comparison between 1690's Salem and Joe McCarthy's communist hunt of the 1950's. McCarthyism spread to the entertainment industry and many very famous people of that time were accused--even Lucille Ball (of "I Love Lucy") and famous silent film actor Charlie Chaplin.

  • @jbisd
    @jbisd 5 ปีที่แล้ว +151

    This
    Sounds
    Familiar

    • @haruhifujioka5952
      @haruhifujioka5952 4 ปีที่แล้ว +7

      Yes
      It
      Does

    • @thuse5532
      @thuse5532 3 ปีที่แล้ว +8

      too familiar.....

    • @brq267
      @brq267 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      What is this comment referencing?

    • @JSPena
      @JSPena 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@brq267 Cancel Culture I guess.

  • @myamya5571
    @myamya5571 4 ปีที่แล้ว +559

    I can't be the only one here because of online school

  • @jericholocke8050
    @jericholocke8050 3 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    i have to watch this for an assignment for class and tbh i want to crawl into a hole and cry cause i don't understand this. if by some miracle my teacher sees this, please spare us. i'm 2 mins in and i got lost a minute ago and god forbid I rewind...

  • @rustyshackle8000
    @rustyshackle8000 ปีที่แล้ว +19

    I can't remember who exactly said it, but there's a quote that I feel sums up the Second Red Scare perfectly
    "Joseph McCarthy has done more damage to democracy than Communism ever could."

    • @jonnyd9351
      @jonnyd9351 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Most likely a communist who denied all acts of subversion

  • @heyhanibee
    @heyhanibee 4 ปีที่แล้ว +152

    "And if new demagogues appeared in uncertain times to attack unpopular minorities in the name of patriotism, could it all happen again?"
    it already has.

    • @liaml.e.5964
      @liaml.e.5964 3 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      It always will, because it has ALWAYS worked.

    • @tuanho2314
      @tuanho2314 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      why?

    • @user-vx9to3vf4m
      @user-vx9to3vf4m 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @Andrew Jenkins Get out of here 👉

    • @whenthe7444
      @whenthe7444 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      @Andrew Jenkins
      👉🚪

    • @mrspleasants8529
      @mrspleasants8529 9 หลายเดือนก่อน

      If we keep our constitutional rights protected then it can't happen. Unfortunately, our constitution is being used as political toilet paper. What is the lesson here...we can only KEEP our rights preserved under the constitution if we are willing to fight for them.

  • @Rebecca-qj1uk
    @Rebecca-qj1uk 6 ปีที่แล้ว +138

    APPLAUSE FOR THE HARDWORKING ARTISTS WHO CREATED THIS STUNNING ANIMATION!!!

    • @andreiz112dn5
      @andreiz112dn5 3 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      They are communists!

    • @cartergomez5390
      @cartergomez5390 ปีที่แล้ว

      Your comment deserves to be on top!

    • @MandraMockups
      @MandraMockups ปีที่แล้ว

      @@cartergomez5390 agreed

    • @jonahulichny9874
      @jonahulichny9874 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@andreiz112dn5 please tell me your joking

  • @olsparkywisenheimer8239
    @olsparkywisenheimer8239 3 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    And here we are once again. Never learning from our past..

  • @louischristopher7116
    @louischristopher7116 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    I notice some similarities of that era in comparison to today in the political scene.

  • @awalkoflife6721
    @awalkoflife6721 5 ปีที่แล้ว +36

    "Thousands of lives" is an understatement, and ignoring the fact that US politics against communism cut millions of lives short on this mote of dust suspended in a sunbeam.

    • @user-fg8ux8zo6w
      @user-fg8ux8zo6w 3 ปีที่แล้ว +8

      and to this day, they still keep running their foreign policy, so if it's not against communism it's against some other excuse to genocide people lmao

  • @idkwhatnametochoose6197
    @idkwhatnametochoose6197 3 ปีที่แล้ว +421

    Me: i kinda like unions
    McCarthy: AHHH COMMUNIST!!!!!

    • @andreiz112dn5
      @andreiz112dn5 3 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      Another fking communist...

    • @Thoralmir
      @Thoralmir 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Unions literally serve no further purpose in modern society.

    • @andreiz112dn5
      @andreiz112dn5 3 ปีที่แล้ว +113

      @@Thoralmir Wdym , what if your boss want's to cut 90% of your wage, and threaten you with destroying your reputation(so you can't get another job) if you leave , and you can't leave the city cause you are poor and you have a wife with 4 childrens and he ruthlessly exploit you and no one to protect you

    • @Thoralmir
      @Thoralmir 3 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      @@andreiz112dn5 You had to create that unrealistically extreme scenario just for the sake of an argument, didn't you?

    • @Thoralmir
      @Thoralmir 3 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      @@andreiz112dn5 Also, don't count on unions to lift a finger to help you out, unless there's something in it for the union bosses. They're basically like the mafia at this point.

  • @l3g0b0y6
    @l3g0b0y6 ปีที่แล้ว +12

    Learning that McCarthy is a fellow Wisconsinite has made me once again embarrassed that we have ties to such people.

    • @ImperiumMagistrate
      @ImperiumMagistrate ปีที่แล้ว +5

      McCarthy was a hero

    • @AnAppleThatHappensToBeRed
      @AnAppleThatHappensToBeRed ปีที่แล้ว +2

      @@ImperiumMagistrate he was a villan and undemocratic

    • @tyberiuszXIV
      @tyberiuszXIV 6 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@AnAppleThatHappensToBeRed Democracy isn't a virtue.

    • @archiemelkonian
      @archiemelkonian หลายเดือนก่อน

      You should be proud moron! He was right.. we almost in communist country. Mandates , masks … didn’t wake u up??

    • @archiemelkonian
      @archiemelkonian หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@ImperiumMagistrate10000%

  • @Eliezer3838
    @Eliezer3838 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Thanks for the vid. I was really confused on this topic.

  • @mallow5828
    @mallow5828 3 ปีที่แล้ว +72

    Friend during class: hey, got a pencil?
    Me: sure, here you g-
    FBI agent, kicking down the door: YOU'RE UNDER ARREST FOR REVOLUTIONARY ACTIVITY

  • @this_is_patrick
    @this_is_patrick 4 ปีที่แล้ว +217

    2:11 Commie or not, someone who nailed a painting of a plunger on his wall deserves to be McCarthyd lmao.

    • @autismobinch135
      @autismobinch135 4 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      This is Patrick
      That wasn’t what modern art was like back then

    • @abdulmasaiev9024
      @abdulmasaiev9024 4 ปีที่แล้ว +13

      The truly ironic thing is modern art was a CIA backed project aimed at fighting the communists though, in a propaganda war.
      No, really: www.independent.co.uk/news/world/modern-art-was-cia-weapon-1578808.html

    • @leonardbaum1179
      @leonardbaum1179 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Abdul Masaiev came here to say this!

    • @Matthew.E.Kelly.
      @Matthew.E.Kelly. 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      Can't spell 'lmao' without the _Mao_ -- comrade.

  • @pillypuppy666
    @pillypuppy666 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    That last scene with the sheep actually scared me so much (more the animation than what the narrator was saying) that I didn't dare touch my device until it went to the credits.

  • @barrymccollom2303
    @barrymccollom2303 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    In 1980 while at UT- Austin I had the privilege to hear John Henry Faulk speak to my Journalism class. He described a group called AWARE that would put entertainer's names on a list of people with "known Communist ties." This threatened one's ability to get work or then as now, lucrative endorsements! If you let them shake you down for 50,000 dollars they would take your name off the list. John Henry ran as union president of the radio actor's guild on an anti- AWARE platform. That put him in Mccarthy's crosshairs!

  • @fuak_tu8371
    @fuak_tu8371 5 ปีที่แล้ว +77

    My great grandfather was accused of this. He served in the army and ended up resigning due to the pressure caused by the recklessness created by McCarthy

  • @barrywithers8913
    @barrywithers8913 4 ปีที่แล้ว +181

    McCarthy would have a field day in 2020 ..

    • @Reaper-ds9vx
      @Reaper-ds9vx 3 ปีที่แล้ว +24

      LOL, so true and he might have been right but he would be very unpopular and deemed as a far-right conspiracy theorist like alex Jones level. But he was right in the end.

    • @deadlanguageMA
      @deadlanguageMA 3 ปีที่แล้ว +81

      Reaper lol conservatives are always really excited at the thought of giving up their rights to authoritarians

    • @romanlegion2621
      @romanlegion2621 3 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      @@deadlanguageMA so are lefties

    • @romanlegion2621
      @romanlegion2621 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@FulllNameUnknown “random”? 😆

    • @Tristan.Suba.44
      @Tristan.Suba.44 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@deadlanguageMA So true, indeed !!!! 😂😂😂

  • @snakezase2998
    @snakezase2998 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

    Remember this what they mean when they say the good old days

  • @Count1jt
    @Count1jt ปีที่แล้ว +2

    We are going through it right now.

  • @quintenwhyte6660
    @quintenwhyte6660 6 ปีที่แล้ว +375

    "The truth is that... mutants are very real and there are among us! We must to know who they are... and above all we must know....what they can do!"- Senator Kelly, X-Men (2000)

    • @levongevorgyan6789
      @levongevorgyan6789 6 ปีที่แล้ว +17

      Well, he is right. We can't have teenagers with the power to destroy nations running around unsupervised.

    • @danielhyberg2590
      @danielhyberg2590 5 ปีที่แล้ว +8

      Guns are ok though

    • @meetroushan2727
      @meetroushan2727 5 ปีที่แล้ว +8

      @@danielhyberg2590 maybe even a few atom bombs

    • @mynameismmandimheretosay7979
      @mynameismmandimheretosay7979 5 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Didn’t expect someone to quote another in such a grammatically-correct way in the TH-cam comments section.

    • @Nyghtking
      @Nyghtking 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Well I mean the guy who can snap his fingers and split atoms, and the guy who can alter reality with a thought are pretty dangerous.

  • @giggles7179
    @giggles7179 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Why does this feel so timely?

  • @michael24taggart
    @michael24taggart 5 ปีที่แล้ว +90

    "Those who fight against monsters might take care, least they thereby become a monster themselves." - Nietzsche.

  • @notsomuch6414
    @notsomuch6414 7 ปีที่แล้ว +583

    It's like a scarecrow shop in the comment section. So many strawmen.

    • @blah7983
      @blah7983 6 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Anna Xia Nice 👍

    • @fulcrum2951
      @fulcrum2951 6 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      But these scarecrows are so expensive

    • @funkiewunkie4865
      @funkiewunkie4865 5 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      Is that a
      FREEDOM TOONS REFENCE

    • @olivevkb
      @olivevkb 5 ปีที่แล้ว +13

      Pretty much all TH-cam comment sections are cancerous.

    • @pandagal9805
      @pandagal9805 5 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Ikr

  • @amartyaduttabanik8378
    @amartyaduttabanik8378 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +5

    Who is here after watching Oppenheimer? 😂

  • @palakmehta365
    @palakmehta365 2 ปีที่แล้ว +6

    This really is the Salem witch trials all over again.

  • @haileymisegadis5501
    @haileymisegadis5501 5 ปีที่แล้ว +73

    0:57 that is the look of “dude. Wtf?”

  • @WoodenWeaponry
    @WoodenWeaponry 3 ปีที่แล้ว +246

    I mean, some americans still have a quite irrational fear of communism.
    Not to say it cant be a threat, but, like, chill man.

    • @kensystem2
      @kensystem2 3 ปีที่แล้ว +35

      Communism ALWAYS devolves into censorship and killing dissidents and freedoms. It has to, to survive. It has done this in EVERY country that tried it. So the "tragedy" this video made it out to be for those who wouldn't renounce communism, utterly PALES by comparison.
      And now today we see its supporters commiting acts of terror and wanting revolution just like all the other communist revolutions.
      So.... No threat? Yeah, sure.

    • @wonderbread7327
      @wonderbread7327 3 ปีที่แล้ว +9

      Õ_Õ Shy Guy ever heard of antifa, blm

    • @greenpeppermint7518
      @greenpeppermint7518 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      And what is the percentage of terrorist attacks not that much we’re living in the most peaceful time in yet we can’t sit and think and use our brain cells you should just be many conservative and I could debate with many levels but we can’t force second echo chamber my ideology is better than the radiology even though those are just glass lenses they were looking through in. The truth is truthAnd we cannot perceive any thing that’s not true perception keep some things and exaggerated and minimizes others that’s what perception is always been. We start debating people with different opinions something beautiful happens our minds grow our minds stop seeing this people as stereotypes and seeing them as less radical them we perceive wooooooooow,

    • @christianmoore7109
      @christianmoore7109 3 ปีที่แล้ว +8

      no communism is a serious threat and must be stopped through any legitimate means.

    • @terror4054
      @terror4054 3 ปีที่แล้ว +60

      It's only a threat to the rich parasites.

  • @Heywoodthepeckerwood
    @Heywoodthepeckerwood ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Yeah…judging by the current situation in colleges and movie houses. They didn’t go far enough…

  • @enteryournamehere7275
    @enteryournamehere7275 3 ปีที่แล้ว +16

    And now it's the other way around.

    • @loopingpong1412
      @loopingpong1412 3 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      ok go protest for your trum

    • @romanlegion2621
      @romanlegion2621 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@loopingpong1412 they did last week

  • @isabelmacdermott470
    @isabelmacdermott470 3 ปีที่แล้ว +17

    Anyone else realising that what he said at the end has already happened so many times.

  • @mohithhoney9630
    @mohithhoney9630 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Only in America, where they say it's a free country and do things like this.

  • @i_acidentaly
    @i_acidentaly ปีที่แล้ว

    What app did you use to make the drawings

  • @pepcarboxylase3802
    @pepcarboxylase3802 3 ปีที่แล้ว +22

    This is exactly what happened in my country too. now i know the name of it hehe but i think south korea was more brutal and not only people lost jobs, they used torture as a way of 'confession'. some people, even young students died during the torture of governments. it was the horrifying dark ages of south korea.

    • @marcioulianamarcio2241
      @marcioulianamarcio2241 2 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      It happened in almost all the countries....Search for New State and Militar Dictatorship of 64.Censorship,torture,disappearing,exhile,and some deaths,of course.Dark years of Brazil.And think that Brazil passes by dark years almost everytime...Bolsonaro sucks.

  • @claimyourshame6196
    @claimyourshame6196 4 ปีที่แล้ว +14

    Came here to brush up my knowledge because part 2 has definitely begun.

  • @DrRank
    @DrRank 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    If only the Demon of Reason was there to stop them...

    • @koro4632
      @koro4632 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      What is wouldnt give for the demon of reason to appear today and some sense into some of these morons. The truth is that even if a literal demon came to correct them, they would all point and cry "fake news". Logic doesn't effect some of these people.

  • @b.m.whindle9195
    @b.m.whindle9195 2 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    So glad this was part of my studies, and my teachers who helped to understand in an unbiased view.

  • @gumunduringigumundsson9344
    @gumunduringigumundsson9344 5 ปีที่แล้ว +100

    Almost ruined the united states of America. That period was awash with fear and uncertainty, I´m so sorry. We all should learn from this. Thank you.

    • @lesthodson2802
      @lesthodson2802 4 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      #MeToo

    • @abdulmasaiev9024
      @abdulmasaiev9024 4 ปีที่แล้ว +13

      Look around the comments. Nothing was learned and if it started up again it would have wide support from the numerous "let's trample on freedoms in the name of FREEDAM" crowd.

    • @midimusicforever
      @midimusicforever 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      "almost"

    • @umwhoalol
      @umwhoalol 4 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      Meanwhile china has basically destroyed the world in the name of communism...congrats guys maccarthy was definitely wrong we swear.

    • @user-uq3um5nq7d
      @user-uq3um5nq7d 4 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      @@umwhoalol if you actually see China, it's not longer Communist, it's more to socialist and has a bit of capitalistic value

  • @thesovietowl7145
    @thesovietowl7145 5 ปีที่แล้ว +320

    My great-grandparents were members of the American Communist Party, and they were followed down the street while they had my grandmother in a stroller xD

    • @AKeyearea8
      @AKeyearea8 5 ปีที่แล้ว +55

      Good!

    • @commmander64
      @commmander64 5 ปีที่แล้ว +107

      I am sorry to hear of your great grand parents struggles. It was very unamerican to censor and spy on anyone like that.

    • @sarahgower2903
      @sarahgower2903 5 ปีที่แล้ว +97

      My great grandparents were also American Communists. They were great people who did a lot of amazing things for their community. All of it meant nothing during this time. They were threatened and harassed constantly.

    • @username-mm8bm
      @username-mm8bm 5 ปีที่แล้ว +22

      @Prashant do you have any idea how deportation work, you numbskull?

    • @Zooboo1
      @Zooboo1 5 ปีที่แล้ว +8

      Communism is great......in a Communist country.. Capitalism in a Democratic Republic is the envy of all..

  • @simbachvazo6530
    @simbachvazo6530 2 ปีที่แล้ว +6

    US: Modern art?! Commie sympathizer!
    Meanwhile, the USSR: Alright modern art looks terrible, so I'm making it illegal.

  • @Eric-ye5yz
    @Eric-ye5yz 2 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    America the most protected country with an ocean east and west, friendly nations north and south, the biggest Airforce, and Navy was the nation most afraid of communism .... That's insane.

    • @charademon1908
      @charademon1908 ปีที่แล้ว

      The basis of communism is built on the socialized means of production, which the ruling class in the citadel of democracy and capitalism could not allow. That is why it did not shy away from any methods to preserve its capital. От либерализма до фашизма один шаг.

  • @lu881
    @lu881 4 ปีที่แล้ว +54

    This is the last time I'll ever be lectured by trolls on how free America is compared to other countries.
    They were literally doing what Communists did!
    Even putting in place dictators!

    • @plankalkulcompiler9468
      @plankalkulcompiler9468 4 ปีที่แล้ว +12

      America's anti communist programs are worse than USSR's anti-capitalist ones. There were many liberal intellectuals in the USSR that could talk very open about socialist policies.

    • @Mrlino091
      @Mrlino091 4 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      USA democracy is a source of inspiration for many young democracies, but I, unfortunately, have to say that it endorsed Brazil's military coup and a dictatorship that lasted for 21 years.

    • @lu881
      @lu881 4 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      @@Mrlino091
      I can only say I like the US' freedom of speech, but South Africa has more freedoms than the US does, so there are other democracies in the world to seek inspiration from and not just the US.

    • @Mrlino091
      @Mrlino091 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@lu881 Sure, the US only ranks fifteenth on the Human Freedom index.

    • @lu881
      @lu881 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @Coelophysis
      So you're saying that the information in the video that you've literally just watched, from which I've based my comment on, is not from a history book?

  • @anoniemanoniem7927
    @anoniemanoniem7927 7 ปีที่แล้ว +117

    İt's exactly what's happening in Turkey. May the innocent people be freed soon 💔

    • @user-to7uy4mm7q
      @user-to7uy4mm7q 5 ปีที่แล้ว +10

      I am a Greek , but I sympathise people that suffer from Sultan Erdogan. For real

  • @AznRUs
    @AznRUs 3 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    I never hear anything good when Nixon's name is brought up.

  • @lexiisbritish9894
    @lexiisbritish9894 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    I have an English assessment on the crucible next week and so I am watching this because we have to link them 😭

  • @mickeyinz558
    @mickeyinz558 7 ปีที่แล้ว +36

    You should of talked about how Charlie Chaplin was a victim of McCarthyism

    • @lagg3sbd394
      @lagg3sbd394 5 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      And Einstein

    • @crescent_sun482
      @crescent_sun482 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      Well, he was a victim of the First Red Scare more than the Second, IIRC.

  • @THATAWSOMEGUYXD2020
    @THATAWSOMEGUYXD2020 4 ปีที่แล้ว +39

    This aged well

    • @rimfire8217
      @rimfire8217 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      It’s history
      It must age well

  • @user-rw6mn1qi9j
    @user-rw6mn1qi9j 2 ปีที่แล้ว +6

    We need another red scare

    • @LavaCreeperPeople
      @LavaCreeperPeople 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      But Communism is dead now

    • @user-justsomeone
      @user-justsomeone 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@LavaCreeperPeople understanding, I'm dead

    • @LavaCreeperPeople
      @LavaCreeperPeople 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@user-justsomeone
      youre just a commie sympathizer who is uneducated on communism, i dont bother with you guys

  • @manuelcheung2917
    @manuelcheung2917 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    1958: "Better Dead Than Red".
    2022: "Better Red than Westoid". LOL

  • @666Tomato666
    @666Tomato666 7 ปีที่แล้ว +54

    That's cute, they think McCarthyism stopped in the US.

    • @datfisheboi6519
      @datfisheboi6519 6 ปีที่แล้ว +20

      Dr. Right What. How is communism a bigger threat than ever? If anything, right-wing nationalism has seen a dramatic rise recently.

    • @merrittanimation7721
      @merrittanimation7721 6 ปีที่แล้ว

      Uhh there's barely any communist nations left how is it on the rise?

    • @mymak-mn4xb
      @mymak-mn4xb 5 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      And there's no true communist nations at all.

    • @lagg3sbd394
      @lagg3sbd394 5 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @TheVincent37 And I want to add to the comment above, 2 world wars together killed 125 million people, far more than any number you can give with communism.

    • @lagg3sbd394
      @lagg3sbd394 5 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@datfisheboi6519 Well, right has been the dominant side since the fall of the USSR; UK, Germany, Italy, Austria, America are right wing democracies and countries like Russia and Turkey are right wing dictatorships. The only countries that I remember being on the left are Sweden, Portugal and Greece. But since the right is slowly falling in these countries, we can say that the left is on the rise.

  • @vvx2953
    @vvx2953 4 ปีที่แล้ว +17

    My teacher told me to watch this for online school

    • @goldiilockzz7556
      @goldiilockzz7556 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      Hassan Productions Only reason why im here

    • @cygnus2954
      @cygnus2954 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      lmao that's what I'm doing rn

    • @tartarsauce1387
      @tartarsauce1387 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      same lol

    • @utdpkg38
      @utdpkg38 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      While I think the majority of this presentation is truthful, there’s more to the story.
      Check out the interviews of actual Soviet defector Yuri Bezmenov. They are quite interesting, and capture the actual threat of the soviets at the time.

    • @vvx2953
      @vvx2953 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      Adam Awesome that’s cool I’ll check it out, btw I make Yt animations if you wanna check it out I just posted my first one in 7 months

  • @spaghettiisyummy.3623
    @spaghettiisyummy.3623 ปีที่แล้ว

    The Ending spooked the Living Soul out of me.