OPINION: 'With communists in short supply, these culture warriors conjured new bogeymen, such as critical race theory and 'wokeism,' targeting America’s youth,' writes Michael Schaller, regents professor emeritus of history at the UA.
Just imagine the spectacle: Government officials traipsing through libraries pulling forbidden books from the shelves and accusing librarians of “grooming” vulnerable readers to undermine the nation. It represented, their boss explained, part of an “immense conspiracy,” to destroy America, reader by reader.
People are also reading… In 1950, Sen. Joe McCarthy charged that Democrats had employed hundreds of Communist agents in the State Department who had “lost China” and Eastern Europe to the Soviet Union. Even after Republican President Dwight D. Eisenhower and his Secretary of State, John Foster Dulles, took the helm in 1953 and fired many of those falsely accused by the senator, McCarthy continued to see Reds everywhere.
At home, some local officials joined the action. In the early 1950s, Congressional investigators accused “cheap paperbacks” and “lurid comic books,” including Wonder Woman and Batman of encouraging homosexuality and juvenile delinquency. This prompted the American Legion and Scout troops to collect offending comics for public immolation.
New educational guidelines in several states forbid primary and secondary schools from assigning books that deal with many aspects of sexuality or presenting history that makes students feel “uncomfortable” or “guilty” about their race. Ultimately, McCarthy, like his progeny, was a performer, not a legislator. As a contemporary quipped, he “couldn’t find a communist in Red Square” nor distinguish “Karl Marx from Groucho.” But he understood the politics of resentment and rode that horse until it gave out.
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