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Thank you We sneak then here's your shmoop du jour

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brought to you by the communist threat being forced to

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read dust copy tell from start to finish Okay ben

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Better position of impotence even the nation in the world

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Are you fine fellow And the question senator mccarthy's rhetoric

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most nearly reflects the rhetoric used against which of the

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following groups in the nineteen forties And here your candle

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answers No All right let's take a look at mccarthy's

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rhetoric In the excerpt he says the reason the u

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s finds itself in danger is because of the traitorous

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actions of those who have been treated so well by

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this nation Mccarthy felt that you couldn't rely on anyone

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since even the most patriotic among us could secretly be

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working for the communists Talk about some major trust issues

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let's see which group and the answers had the same

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kind of accusations leveled against them in the forties was

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senator mccarthy's rhetoric similar to the rhetoric used against be

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african americans in the south The racist and discriminatory language

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against african americans was awful but it wasn't specifically about

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them working to sabotage the government is communist so it's

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not good that kind of rhetoric have been used against

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sief feminists in major cities Well the feminist movement received

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a lot of ill will in their fight for gender

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parity but similar to passive is fighting to the end

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of the war These groups weren't suspected of actively trying

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to overthrow the government more like trying to promote equality

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in peace the horror so that eliminates see andy which

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means that mccarthy's rhetoric Most nearly reflects rhetoric used against

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a japanese americans on the west coast after the bombing

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of pearl harbor The same kinds of sabotaging the u

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s government arguments were made against japanese americans who many

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suspected were collaborating with japanese governor Despair led to the

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nineteen forty two internment of one hundred ten thousand japanese

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americans along the west coast So the answer is a

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as in a terrible stain on our nation's collective conscience

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