单词 | McCarthyism |
释义 | McCarthyism/məˈkɑːθɪɪz(ə)m /noun [mass noun] A vociferous campaign against alleged communists in the US government and other institutions carried out under Senator Joseph McCarthy in the period 1950-4. Many of the accused were blacklisted or lost their jobs, though most did not in fact belong to the Communist Party.Computergate was a chilling welcome to a new McCarthyism, a McCarthyism not run by a centralized political authority, but enabled by a specific way of understanding and treating computer technology....
DerivativesMcCarthyite
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