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Originally Posted by Ralph Sir Edward
I'm assuming you mean Joseph McCarthy's prisons. What prisons? Can you describe them, and/or locate them? I'm quite serious.
I can point out many re-education camps. And mass graves....
This is not to deny that HUAC (which was separate from Joseph McCarthy's hearings) cut off certain people's way of earning an income. Was this better or worse that the Japanese American internment camps? Or limiting Jewish immigration from Germany before 1939? Or....
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We're all, as British or Americans on very shaky ground when it comes to the examples you're citing. We British (as a a nation state) instituted the concentration camp and were responsible for mass slaughters across several continents during our Empire. The Americans, famously, interred their Japanese-American population during WWII and lest we forget the whole genocide of the Native populace. And if we go even further we'll see that the American Nation, especially its corporations were inexorably linked with the death camps of the Nazi's (the kind of corporatism and capitalism that prompted the Cocal Cola company to invent Fanta because they couldn't make a profit from Cola in Nazi Germany).
Mcarthyism did not only 'deprive people of an income', it forced many into exile to avoid imprisonment, most famously being Ring Lardner Jr, the Screenwriter. There were plenty of imprisonments during the HUAC, only not of the highly public figures. A Witch hunt isn't really a Witch hunt if when you find the Witch you don't do anything with her now, is it?