I was always taught that the red scare was unfounded. If anything, I am constantly learning that my own education was “red-washed” -- communist atrocities both here and abroad either minimized or literally taken out of history books entirely. We did learn about the scopes monkey trial in depth.
It still blows my mind that this stuff was happening 100+ years ago. The rot has been for far longer than I initially thought.
I was always taught that the red scare was unfounded. If anything, I am constantly learning that my own education was “red-washed” -- communist atrocities both here and abroad either minimized or literally taken out of history books entirely. We did learn about the scopes monkey trial in depth.