Comments by "Voryn Rosethorn" (@vorynrosethorn903) on "Joe McCarthy: The Original Conspiracy Theorist" video.

  1. I recommend the book Blacklisted by History by M. Stanton Evans. The Soviet archives have been open for three decades at this point and they reveal that almost everyone he accused did in fact have a relationship (whether as informer, asset or paid agent) with the KGB and often far before that. It is increasingly mainstream knowledge that Soviet sympathisers had a key role in the state department from the 30's onwards and indeed these days that facts effect on the rise of Mao is much discussed. McCarthy was hardly a rocket scientist many of the people he investigated had or were active members of the American communist party, a similar denial of the relevance of political loyalties happened in the British secret service and a great many people died because of it.
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  2. Refute it then.
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  3. This is a subject of history and he should be judged on the basis of evidence rather than ideological sympathy. The traditional argument has been baseless since access to the Soviet archives means that we can objectively assess how right or wrong he was, since then the history has only moved in the direction of exonirating him of the long list of false claims and slanders on his character and motivations. One's own political loyalties are irrelevant to this and claiming it to be fascistic is neglecting the fact that fascists are themselves principally interested in subverting the state and that they are so miniscule in number that all those in the world could probably fit into a football stadium.
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  4. American agents where at least as is currently understood not even slightly as influential, indeed a good portion of their actions seem to have been directed against South America, allied European countries and random American civilians. The paranoid nature of the Soviet union was furthered by their existence however though I'd argue that a great part of that was that the Soviets always felt like adding a accusation of spying for the enemy onto the charges of people they wanted to get rid of (which often included guilt by ethnicity or association, though they would still use it a good deal at random or in cases were the claim was blatantly ludicrous).
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  5. You probably shouldn't hire or retain sympathisers of an enemy ideology wherever or not you know they are spies. The amount of negligence was simply staggering and the damage they ended up doing is incalculable.
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  6. A narrative is not correct by nature of existence and this video was exceptionally poorly researched.
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