Talk:Red-baiting

Robert Kastenmeier
Was Kastenmeier actually a pinko who was forced to distance himself from the student radicals for fear of Red-baiting, or was he instead opposed to what they were saying? (I cannot access that page of the Weather-lady's book, so I do not know the background.) 02:57, 22 June 2011 (UTC)

Gay Mecca
Can I just drop here that before Stalin, Soviets have decriminalised homosexuality, expanded on civil rights (like allowing for abortions and generally advancing the case of feminism), and that Soviet psychiatry has contributed to the field when it wasn't abused for political wankery? Ok, so I will do just that, and also note that the first two thingies were done in 1917, half a century before civil rights protests in the West. Thank you.


 * Were these reforms actually implement, or just discussed at some point? Doesn't seem correct to say that these "thingies" were actually "done" in 1917, so I will go ahead and remove those parts
 * To confirm the OP, the Wiki article on does seem to indicate that the Bolsheviks effectively decriminalized homosexual sex on taking over (didn't stop persecution of homosexuals though) and the wiki article on  noted that Russia was the first European country to legalize abortion in 1920. IMHO no need to remove anything from the article though, because the section of the article in question is in reference to Skousen's "The Naked Communist" referencing these things. This book was written in 1958. This is well after Stalin took charge; among many other "features" of his reign, homosexuality and abortion were both re-outlawed (again as the OP inferred). Soundwave106 (talk) 14:59, 8 July 2020 (UTC)

big picture: the Civil Rights movement was considered a Communist Plot
This was in the '60s, but also before- and believe it or not, some people still think it was/is! The main exponents of this theory were Robert Welch, who founded the Bitchers. Excuse me, "Birchers", and also J Edgar Hoover, who tried to blackmail MLK Jr into suicide after surveilling him illegally (his other main GREAT ENEMY was Albert Einstein.) Hoover thought Einstein was a Commie. Not according to Albert (from his wikiquote page):

"I'm not a Communist but I can well understand why they destroyed the Church in Russia. All the wrongs come home, as the proverb says. The Church will pay for its dealings with Hitler, and Germany, too." -Albert Einstein

What this article really needs is a picture of the flyer that went out in Dallas days before JFK was assassinated, that claimed he was a Communist and traitor and anti-Christian. One copy of it can be found on the Wikipedia page of Edwin Walker. Sorry too busy to make these edits myslf. :(
 * I found the flyer and added it to the page at the very least. Good comment though! 22:39, 9 December 2022 (UTC)