Talk:House Committee on Un-American Activities
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Former article Template:Unamerican activities, now made into redirect. This is inaccurate, non-NPOV, better stuff in current article:
- Un-American activities was a phrase used by the House Un-American Activities Committee, during the McCarthyite trials. The phrase was applied by some committee members to those who were accused--often falsely--of being engaged in political activities funded or otherwise supported by the Communist Party.
- The phrase came from the title of the House Un-American Activities Committee, formed in 1947 to investigate the supposed inclusion of Communist propaganda by Hollywood.
Ortolan88 09:31 Aug 1, 2002 (PDT)
German-American
- [In the late thirties, the committee's] work was aimed mostly at German-American involvement in Nazi and KKK activity.
Can someone clarify:
- Does this refer specifically to ethnic German-American's involvement with the Nazis, as opposed to American cooperation with German Nazis (I presume it's the former)?
- Is it 'German-American' involvement in the KKK that is being referenced, or the committee's investigation of the KKK as a whole (I presume it's the latter)?
Name Move
There are House Committees in the United states on various topics. The term is House Committee, NOT House Un-American Activities Committee. If you have any objections please respond here. --ShaunMacPherson 12:12, 6 Oct 2004 (UTC)
objection
Please reference some documents that use House Committee on Un-American Activities instead of House Un-American Activities Committee to give your theorectical argument some cogency.
- I can't give you any documentation (I'll see what I can find), but having participated in debates on this topic back in the day, I can asure you that this point came up repeatedly. Opponents of the committee liked the pronounceable acronym HUAC while supporters very much preferred the unpronounceable initialism HCUA, which they viewed as correct (and much less useful as a rhetorical tool). Both "sides" are grinding their axes on this one. Ortolan88 23:30, 6 Oct 2004 (UTC)
This article says "Only Mission to Moscow was ever found to have traces of propaganda in it", but I ask: according to whom? What qualifies as a "trace"? But most of all, what about the movie Salt of the Earth? I don't know enough about the issue here to be able to write it into the article myself, but I'm pretty sure it needs to be mentioned.
