From http://www.booktalk.org/post159140.html#p159140

LanDroid wrote:why don't you bring the blacklist and many other abuses by the House Un-American Activities Committee to Australia and see how much YOU luv it.

Australia’s greatest Prime Minister, Bob Menzies, sought to ban the Communist Party in the early 1950s, but unfortunately this proposal was defeated at referendum so we retained the communist baleful sneaky stupid influence on politics. It is unfortunate that some people of good will have suffered from false accusations of being communist sympathisers, but in a context where communists were actively seeking to subvert western cultural values, historians may judge that the HUAC message that communism is incompatible with US politics served a greater good.

DWill wrote:

Robert Tulip wrote:Guilt by association arguments based on assuming Joe McCarthy was bad are not strong, begging the question of whether the Cold War anti-communist movement which Trump associates like Cohn were part of have moral legitimacy.

I don't know what you mean by "begging the question" here, Robert.

Begging the question means assuming the conclusion. The article https://www.washingtonpost.com/investig ... story.html from the Washington Post at the linked post (on new book discussion proposals) assumes that HUAC was immoral. It therefore assumes that Trump is immoral for consorting with a lawyer who worked for HUAC. That is a typical liberal failure to see that Senator McCarthy’s purge of communist sympathisers helped protect America from the dangers of communism.