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I think that there were not legitimate concerns for red hunting during this time. THey took it way too far and many of the people that they accused were innocent and had done nothing wrong at all. It got way out of hand and should not have even happened. People who were in entertainment were targeted especially and it only made things worse as McCarthy and other political figures accused others in order to either cause them pain or just to ensure that the blame was not directed toward them.
There weren't any legitimate reasons to hunt for communist spies, just unreasonable fear, hatred and suspicion. McCarthy was able to direct this fear, hatred, and suspicion to accuse people of being communist. He pointed the finger, and it was the patriotic thing to keep communism from spreading, so people targeted the people he pointed out. McCarthy and others like him began to accuse others who were just different of being against democracy, and the people continued to follow his guidance and persecute these people too, to protect their country.
McCarthyism began in the late 40's and 50's as an extreme anti-Communists movement. McCarthyism later became nicknamed a witch hunt because it made serious charges with little or no effidence. During this time period many false allegations were made against people in the public. McCarthy the ring leader pointed fingers at people that were innocent, but since they had differing views on how government should be implemented, he wrongly accused them. The Red Scare got out of hand, accusations were flying every where in an antempt to save themselves or as revenge on someone. Many people who were disliked or thought of as different were unjustly accused, at this time period different meant bad. There was many innnocent victims and over 100 were imprisoned and anyone accused was blacklisted ruining their career, which was unfair. McCarthy and followers used this communism threat as a scapegoat to gain power and weaken high standing people in the public.
Maynard
I will go against the grain and say that in the mind of the people there was reasonable cause for "red-hunting." They believed there were people who were bringing in communism. In my opinion, they should have not been so quick to judge the people based solely on the fact that they were "different" or thought differently. McCarthy and his followers intensified the assault by pointing fingers. Innocent searching for spies can be justified, but assault on anyone who is different is totally wrong.
Casey:)
In the late 1940s-1950s Russia had just been taken over by communism and Cuba had also been. People feared that their own democratic government would fall to communistic beliefs. Joseph McCarthy began to accuse people in the government first. He declared to the public that he had a list of over a 100 people who were activei in the government who were communist. This is when (like Maynard said) the red scare began to fly out of hand, and accusations were flying in every which direction. People accused pointed fingers at other innocent people. The free thinkers, such as people in the entertainment industry were hardly hit with accusations. People who thought different than the average person were thought to be a threat and thus accused. Anyone that was even accused was black listed and ended their careers. I don't think there were even legitimate concerns behind the red scare hunting in the first place.
i believe this question is very similar to whether it was necessary for japanese americans being sent to concentration camps. it was just because of fear and prejudice towards japanese after WWII. but with the red scare everyone was afraid of the spread of communism to america. so the concerns for the red scare were not legitimate at all.
mccarthy turned this red scare into a sort of game. you had to act the same as everyone else because if you didnt you were a communist. there wasnt individuality among many people because of this ongoing fear of being accused.
The Red Scare was essentially a witch hunt of salem proportions. McCarthy ran around trying to get the spotlight off him (he was accused of doing something wrong while serving in the military.) so he started naming off hundreds of people who were communists. His accusations never really led anywhere, except to people who were eager to implicate someone else to save their own skins. Although communism is a scary thing and it was in headlines all over the world during this time, it doesnt mean everyone who thinks slightly different than you is a communist. the concerns behind the red-scare were not legitimate and overall were pretty silly.
I really don't think there were legigimate concerns against all of this. I think McCarthy went a little far with all of his trials and things. I think that some people spoke out for what they believed in and McCarthy took it the wrong way. Like Arthur Miller, he was put on trial and had no intention of becoming communist. I think that everyone was still fearful of another war. We had just gotten out of WWII, and people wanted a period of peace.
I think the red scare wasn't legitimate. It was kind of like the US putting the japenese into camps during WWII, it was pointless. The American public just got too paranoid, and they overreacted. Also, McCarthy may have even been accusing people of communism to get himself out of trouble when accusations were made against him by the army. The trials were corrupt and under the surface they weren't always over what they claimed. Any one against the trials were often accuse themselfs; it got way too out of hand and hopefully America will never make that mistake again.
I believe it was definetly not legitimate, it reminds of the same thing they did to american japanese people after pearl harbor. They had the fear in their heart that these people would hurt them. So if the communist were going to bring something in then they wanted them out.McCarthy pinned this on free thinkers because they thought different than everyone else and obviously different wasnt good to him. He just said that they had communist ideas because they were different.
I agree with everyone else when saying that there was not a legitimate reason for the red-hunting. We have seen it before in our country whether it’s the Japanese Americans that we put in concentration camps or the Salem witch trials. If the government sees something slightly out of place or if someone is trying to be different, they point fingers and turn it into something huge. In this case some were in favor of spreading communism and McCarthy starting pointing fingers. In fear everyone agreed because if they disagree they themselves would be accused. Just because some people didn’t agree with the democracy doesn’t mean they should be punished.
I believe that there were no ligitimate concerns for the hunting all of the people in the red scare. It started off trying to do the right thing but at the end it was just McCarthy trying to get ride og the people he did not like and that did not think the same way as him. And he also did it to get him self out of hot water because he was accused of thing himself
I don't think there were any legitimate concerns behind the red scare hunting. McCarthy started pointing fingers when some were in favor of spreading communism and turned it into a big ordeal that could've been avoided. People agreed with him because they didn't want the blame to be pointed towards them for being free-thinkers and believing what they wanted. I agree with a lot of the comments that said it was similar to the Japanese being put in concentration camps and Salem witch trials.
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