Originally Posted by Epoch
Witchhunts for unamerican people. McCarthy was the one that lead the great communist hunt to get rid of all those "godless bastards" from the media and government. There was a lot of fingerpointing and senseless blame, and it was used as a political tool for those to slander those not in power.
McCarthyism : The practice of publicizing accusations of political disloyalty or subversion with insufficient regard to evidence.
Nobody called this kid a communist. They merely investigated a complaint by the school system of a possible threat to the president. If anything, the kid's family and "family friend" are doing more to publicize this than anyone else.