@Phen@lemmy.eco.br to Asklemmy@lemmy.ml • 8 months agowhat fact about our current world would freak people out if it were a newspaper headline a century ago?message-square153fedilinkarrow-up1174arrow-down14file-text
arrow-up1170arrow-down1message-squarewhat fact about our current world would freak people out if it were a newspaper headline a century ago?@Phen@lemmy.eco.br to Asklemmy@lemmy.ml • 8 months agomessage-square153fedilinkfile-text
minus-squareDark ArcAlinkEnglish5•8 months ago “PEOPLE CLAIMING STATE AND CHURCH SHOULD BE SEPARATED ARE NOT FIT FOR OFFICE, THEY ARE COMMUNIST TRAITORS” That’s more of a 50-70s thing. In the 1920s communism wasn’t a big idea in the US and God wasn’t in the pledge nor part of our national motto.
minus-square@jaywalker@lemm.eelinkfedilink7•8 months agoThe first Red Scare was in 1919 and communism was a big enough idea in the US that the government was putting communists in prison
That’s more of a 50-70s thing. In the 1920s communism wasn’t a big idea in the US and God wasn’t in the pledge nor part of our national motto.
The first Red Scare was in 1919 and communism was a big enough idea in the US that the government was putting communists in prison