alt Hacker NewsAh, I see, it's the same as "un-American", only without being a word too onerous to use (yet) due to obvious historical implications.
Ah, I see, it's the same as "un-American", only without being a word too onerous to use (yet) due to obvious historical implications.
> The House Un-American Activities Committee (HUAC), was an investigative committee of the United States House of Representatives created in 1938. Their goal was to investigate alleged disloyalty and subversive activities on the part of private citizens, public employees, and those organizations suspected of having communist ties. It was abolished in 1975.
I'd heard of this but didn't realize it went on for decades.
Turning it around, I'd say persecuting political enemies for being "un-American" - or as a recent book declared, "unhuman" - is a very un-American thing to do. At least according to the values for which the nation stands (or supposed to stand).