McCarthyism

McCarthyism was a practice which consisted in making accusation of treason without proper explanation and valid evidence. The  organization was in charge of accusing people of  possibly being communists. Mccarthyism was even used to humiliate some people and described them as reckless and horrible people. During this era, thousands of americans were accused of being communists or part of a communist sphere. McCarthyist became subject to aggressive investigations and questioned the subject and sometimes forced them to say things that weren’t necessarily true. McCarthyist primary targets were ones who came the middle class and government workers such as teachers, or entertainers. Many were accused without fully understanding the complete evidence and why they had been called up and later accused. The way the members of the group found the evidence was not legal but they did it anyways.