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.
“Caused more damage than the threat it self” is the most American thing i have ever heard
Especially now
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.
@@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
The welfare state
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
Ah yes, the original cancel culture...
Spot on
Cancel culture is just one symptom of communist infiltration and indoctrination. All evidence points to McCarthy being right all along.
Hix Idom McCarthy we know it’s you
Except it’s the right-wing version and perhaps more damaging than the left one.
@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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
@@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.
He was 100% right!!
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.
Sage.
Sounds like a good teacher.
I claim that History should have it's own practical demonstrations along with lessons. This is a great way of teaching.
@@primenumberbuster404Exactly! Kind of like the Wave.
I bet innocent people got accused 😭
He's checking his list
And he's checking it twice
He's gonna find out if your a commie tonight
Raphus cucullatus made me laugh
*you’re**
McCarthy is coming to tooooowwwn
He sees you when you're sleeping, he knows u are commie
Santa claus (karl marx) is coming to town!!
This is kinda what we criticized the communist for...
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.
360flyby Darkness cannot drive out darkness, only light can do that.
Hatred cannot drive out hatred, only love can do that.
The problem with this world is that we alway think about the worse in bad situations and not the solution
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.
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...
Nobody:
USA: I used authoritarianism to destory authoritarianism.
Problem with that is?
@Karl Marx ...Says the pinko
@Karl Marx And I should with a guy named “Karl Marx”
@Karl Marx mad at what? I’m happy 😃
@@romanlegion2621 You seem mad. The fact that you had to write “I’m happy” ironically does little to help your case.
"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?
"Those who sacrifice liberty for security deserve neither"
Not true.
Benjamin Franklin was a true statesman
And will lose both.
Says the guy who probably believes alqaida did 9/11.
@@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 ??
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!
Limerence
Weren’t that scared until I realized steve bannon is a thing
Wolf in sheep's clothing
Yeah, that's a good analogy!
Thank you you just answered my hw
I would love for my body to harm itself in order to cleanse me of _the communism_
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.
amogus..
@@tyronebonquaviusdaquan3562Among Us indeed, fits the gameplay.
I love everything Patrick Smith animates! He’s very talented.
too kind sir. this particular ted ed was really interesting to draw.. prob my fav
@@PatrickSmithAnimation That’s awesome, man! I really enjoyed the Hunter S. Thompson blank on blank video you did. Again, great work, my friend!
@@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
@@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!
@@KittyTGQ awesome!! which school?
POV: You're a teacher and you've been teaching The Crucible for 7 years...
Those witches don't exist. Communists do.
@@zorafilms well, witches do exist. So do communists.
LOL I'M ON THAT MODULE NOW.
Looking for something fresh!
@@zorafilms the whole point of The crucible was that it was an allegory for the red scare.
USSR: bans modern art, making it illegal to have in your home
USA: write that down! Write that down!
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.
Its interesting to me how the things usa criticized the urss to do to his people did it too
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.
@@gregorymalchuk272 but by banning them breaks the first rule the founding fathers bragged America to keep it.
freedom of speech
What ridiculous hyperbole. America's a libertine hellhole, not a totalitarian dystopia.
Ted ed never dissapoint with their content and animation, you'll always have a lot to learn whenever you watch their informative videos
“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
This is basically a political version of the Salem witch trials.
Spot on! The Crucible (a famous play about those witch hunts) was written as an allegory for McCarthyism
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...
"there were no witches at those trials, but there were communists"
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.
@@chickenfishhybrid44 there never were witches?! That’s what you think
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.
*laughing in Russiagate*
@@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.
@@DA-wx9oz Again with beating that death horse?
@@acetate909 Did you read the Mueller report...
@@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.
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.
You should consider that during that time period, your fathers teacher was correct😂. The US had total power hegemony over the entire world.
@@jonnyd9351Saying that it should be able to do whatever it wants is wrong tho and it sounds forced.
Fantastic art, incredibly immersive and not distracting in the slightest!
_"sometimes humans fear their enemy so much, that they _*_become_*_ their enemy themselves"_
Kinda reminds me to starwars...
Exactly
“fear leads to anger, anger leads to hate, hate leads to suffering...”
Very true.
Kinda playing out now
“If your a good enough debater you can argue anything is a national security threat”- Professor Erik Fogel.
anything's a national security threat if you're brave enough
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.
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.
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
@@Paonporteur do ur own reserxh if u don't believe me
they kill all communism in south vietnam and south korea during cold war
@@Paonporteur Look up Operation Condor and military generals such as Jorge Rafael Videla and Augustino Pinochet. Those people were monsters, funded by the US.
Please never stop making these they are so good to show in class!
Me: *hangs up a cool picture of my plunger*
FBI: FBI OPEN UP
becuz it’s red like the communist blood
Carton shut it
lmao
this really made me laugh!!!
@@HeyKevinYT isn't the republican party color red aswell
Died three years after targeting the army "probably alcoholism"
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.
sigh Will Americans stop blaming everything on conspiracy theories? Correlation DOES NOT imply causation.
How many Russian doctors have to accidentally fall out of Windows before anyone notices?
@@MamaFeng Trying to stop a totalitarian regime from infiltrating your government is progressive.
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
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."
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.
Can we just appreciate this awesome creative art?
Keilan L the art is pretty good
It's hard when it's dignifying barefaced lies.
@@IggyTthunders explain?
.. You just might be a Communist
Truer
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.
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."*
Yoda
Thanks for the vid. I was really confused on this topic.
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.
Nobody:
McCarthy when someone shares a chocolate bar: COMMIEEEEE! COMIEEEEEE! REEEEEEEEEEE!
Underrated Comment
Sam O'nella Moment
@@Silverdynamix I'm glad I wasn't the only one to get the reference
That mentality never really went away did it?
@@DukeOfKidderminster Afraid not
Those who don't learn from history are doomed to repeat it. Kinda like what's happening now
Ęÿūį Æßñ They say history repeats itself, first as tragedy then as farce
Jovan Emeric that is what Marx says...
Those who don't learn from history are doomed to repeat it.
Pipe2DevNull iseewhatyoudidthere
Those who don't learn from history will repeatedly play Doom.
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.
What app did you use to make the drawings
“Could it happen again?” -um yeah dude it’s happening right now
Right now?
Big Dab for sure, we just call it cancel culture.
@Asura Khæñ Really? That's too bad
Yeah Russiagate
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."
This Video: *’Says anything’*
Me, with an essay due: *Write that down, write that down!*
Lynelli loooool
Cite your source.
And my darling, that is called “direct plagiarism”
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
Lynelli
Good. Keep it that way.
Me: has red blood
The government: COMMIEE!!!
I notice some similarities of that era in comparison to today in the political scene.
“If she weighs the same as a duck, she’s made of wood!”
“And therefore...?”
*“A WITCH! A WITCH! A WITCH!”*
500 traitor ducks in the gov't.
"BUUUUURN HEEER!!!!"
r/unexpectedmontypython
@@unique_handle_1066 Of course there's a subreddit for that lol
"It's a fair cop."
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.
There is also Fahrenheit 451
It’s just unfortunate that he took so many historical liberties with actual people and ended up spreading false history.
Learning that McCarthy is a fellow Wisconsinite has made me once again embarrassed that we have ties to such people.
McCarthy was a hero
@@ImperiumMagistrate he was a villan and undemocratic
@@AnAppleThatHappensToBeRed Democracy isn't a virtue.
You should be proud moron! He was right.. we almost in communist country. Mandates , masks … didn’t wake u up??
@@ImperiumMagistrate10000%
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!
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.
save our souls
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...
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.
@@llepsnaci1 America doesn't need some idealistic poison that's killed nearly 100 million people.
Irrelevant
Land of the free...
Nobody can be free under communism.
Albert Lintos you’re wrong, communism is literally anarchy
"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"
...home of the paranoid.
@@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"
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...
And here we are once again. Never learning from our past..
APPLAUSE FOR THE HARDWORKING ARTISTS WHO CREATED THIS STUNNING ANIMATION!!!
They are communists!
Your comment deserves to be on top!
@@cartergomez5390 agreed
@@andreiz112dn5 please tell me your joking
"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.
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
Why does this feel so timely?
Please make a video expanding on this topic and intertwining it with Arthur Miller's "The Crucible"
"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.
It always will, because it has ALWAYS worked.
why?
@Andrew Jenkins Get out of here 👉
@Andrew Jenkins
👉🚪
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.
This
Sounds
Familiar
Yes
It
Does
too familiar.....
What is this comment referencing?
@@brq267 Cancel Culture I guess.
"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
This is very uncanny. To know that the same wrongs have been perpetrated for so many years in this country is disheartening.
Me: i kinda like unions
McCarthy: AHHH COMMUNIST!!!!!
Another fking communist...
Unions literally serve no further purpose in modern society.
@@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
@@andreiz112dn5 You had to create that unrealistically extreme scenario just for the sake of an argument, didn't you?
@@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.
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
you know the American education system is failing when there are people who think McCarthyism is justified lmao
So glad this was part of my studies, and my teachers who helped to understand in an unbiased view.
I can't be the only one here because of online school
same
i have to watch this for online school
yessir
Same
But let’s be honest no one is here willingly
"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)
Well, he is right. We can't have teenagers with the power to destroy nations running around unsupervised.
Guns are ok though
@@danielhyberg2590 maybe even a few atom bombs
Didn’t expect someone to quote another in such a grammatically-correct way in the UA-cam comments section.
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.
Wasn't it proven later partially?
no
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."
Most likely a communist who denied all acts of subversion
2:11 Commie or not, someone who nailed a painting of a plunger on his wall deserves to be McCarthyd lmao.
This is Patrick
That wasn’t what modern art was like back then
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
Abdul Masaiev came here to say this!
Can't spell 'lmao' without the _Mao_ -- comrade.
"Those who fight against monsters might take care, least they thereby become a monster themselves." - Nietzsche.
Indeed
I will never forget this quote
Communists aren't monsters...
The Ending spooked the Living Soul out of me.
We are going through it right now.
McCarthy would have a field day in 2020 ..
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.
Reaper lol conservatives are always really excited at the thought of giving up their rights to authoritarians
@@deadlanguageMA so are lefties
@@FulllNameUnknown “random”? 😆
@@deadlanguageMA So true, indeed !!!! 😂😂😂
I have an English assessment on the crucible next week and so I am watching this because we have to link them 😭
Yeah…judging by the current situation in colleges and movie houses. They didn’t go far enough…
You missed the point of the video.
It's like a scarecrow shop in the comment section. So many strawmen.
Anna Xia Nice 👍
But these scarecrows are so expensive
Is that a
FREEDOM TOONS REFENCE
Pretty much all UA-cam comment sections are cancerous.
Ikr
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
I searched Како тодорке, and old Bulgarian song that I suddenly remembered the name of and I have been taken to a TED talk.
I'm just going to remind everyone that political parties like Democrats and republicans have changed over the years. The way the parties function today is different because technology and education has evolved our understanding of ourselves, others, and the world around us.
I mean, some americans still have a quite irrational fear of communism.
Not to say it cant be a threat, but, like, chill man.
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.
Õ_Õ Shy Guy ever heard of antifa, blm
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,
no communism is a serious threat and must be stopped through any legitimate means.
It's only a threat to the rich parasites.
0:57 that is the look of “dude. Wtf?”
Dude, uncool
I totally recognized the animation style from pour 585 and thought immediately that it's got to be the same animator, I was right.
US: Modern art?! Commie sympathizer!
Meanwhile, the USSR: Alright modern art looks terrible, so I'm making it illegal.
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
Good!
I am sorry to hear of your great grand parents struggles. It was very unamerican to censor and spy on anyone like that.
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.
@Prashant do you have any idea how deportation work, you numbskull?
Communism is great......in a Communist country.. Capitalism in a Democratic Republic is the envy of all..
You should of talked about how Charlie Chaplin was a victim of McCarthyism
And Einstein
Well, he was a victim of the First Red Scare more than the Second, IIRC.
Make people believe absurdities and they will commit atrocities- the last 2 years
So this was the original template for twitter?
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.
#MeToo
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.
"almost"
Meanwhile china has basically destroyed the world in the name of communism...congrats guys maccarthy was definitely wrong we swear.
@@umwhoalol if you actually see China, it's not longer Communist, it's more to socialist and has a bit of capitalistic value
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!
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.
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.
@@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.
@@lu881 Sure, the US only ranks fifteenth on the Human Freedom index.
@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?
was that he katakuri haki sound effect? One Piece? 0:07
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.
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.
Anyone else realising that what he said at the end has already happened so many times.
Why was the ending so scary tho? i thought my heart stopped 💀
I highly recommend the movie Good Night and Good Luck, a great movie both as a period piece of the 50s, aa well as a scathing criticism of McCarthyism.
Criticism or disingenuous lie
@@jonnyd9351 elaborate
Came here to brush up my knowledge because part 2 has definitely begun.
Part 2?!
Huh?
İt's exactly what's happening in Turkey. May the innocent people be freed soon 💔
I am a Greek , but I sympathise people that suffer from Sultan Erdogan. For real
Happy new year everyone
This is portrayed somewhat in popular film; for example, "Indiana Jones and the Crystal Skull" contains scenes of Mccarthyism.
So basically Franz Kafka was kind of a fortune teller.
What do you mean?
@@ms.ripley3236 read "The Trial".
@@cockatooinsunglasses7492 what does it have in connection with this vid?
@@ms.ripley3236 being randomly snapped up by beuracracy for an extended amount without a legitimate reason and having it ruin your life inspite of you being neither guilty or innocent. Basically a system where you never win but always lose for no reason. Almost the very definition of "Kafkaesque".
@@cockatooinsunglasses7492 ooh. yeah true i just knew the term "Kafkaesque" last year, i think. This term should be more known.
This was amazing, keep it up Ted-Ed!
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.
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.
That ending says that it could happen again. It freaks the heck out of me.
This aged well
It’s history
It must age well
As usual it's a good job, It could have been nice to talk a bit about Robert Oppenheimer one of the biggest victim of macCarthyism and also a really amazing scientist ^^
Apart from this the animation and explanations are great like always! :D
The one man that turned US into the nuclear superpower became a victim of McCarthyism as well?!
And btw, while the McCarthyists were busy in sending thousands of innocent people to jail, KGB agents continued to infiltrate with relatively little resistance.
He could have mentioned the Rosenbergs
I have become Bart the Simpson