'Brown Scare'

The internment of the Japanese during WWII was a "brown scare" of sorts given the Japanese ideology at the time.
 
The internment of the Japanese during WWII was a "brown scare" of sorts given the Japanese ideology at the time.

I think that was more the culmination of west coast racial tensions which had been building for a generation or more. It wasn't ideological at all.
 
I also don't think there would be a "brown scare" equivalent to the red one as such- remember, there was paranoid anticommunism in the US before anybody had even heard of fascism. Red scares tapped into deeper, more established trends in US political life.

I think what would happen in a neutral US-Nazi Europe timeline is a generalized left-wing populist, antifascist attitude. I think that the sort of ambivalently pro-Fascist language that was popular among the right-wing and rich in the 1930's would start to be shouted down in the media more and more aggressively, until there was an effective, informal tacit ban on floating certain ideas or advocating certain pro-fascist policies.

So I don't think HUAC would exist, or that it would be dragging lucky lindy in front of it (although the FBI would certainly be watching) but anybody speaking out in favor of the german-backed military rebellion against the Tudeh government of Iran in the 50's would be shouted down by feistier members of congress and the New York Times and generally be seen as an un-American asshole.
 
So I don't think HUAC would exist, or that it would be dragging lucky lindy in front of it (although the FBI would certainly be watching) but anybody speaking out in favor of the german-backed military rebellion against the Tudeh government of Iran in the 50's would be shouted down by feistier members of congress and the New York Times and generally be seen as an un-American asshole.

Ah, but the policy of the FBI at this time isn't set by popular opinion. Nor is it totally under the control of the White House.

If Hoover wants to persecute crypto-fascists or their fellow travellers he is more than capable of doing so.

The question is: What's in it for him?
 
Ah, but the policy of the FBI at this time isn't set by popular opinion. Nor is it totally under the control of the White House.

If Hoover wants to persecute crypto-fascists or their fellow travellers he is more than capable of doing so.

The question is: What's in it for him?
A thought:
McCarthy and Co. charged their enemies with being communist agents that sabotaged US efforts and 'lost' China. If there's a Nazi victory, perhaps something similar, only directed against fascist sympathizers and bascially anyone they thought didn't quite do their job?
 
I've resisted several times, but succumbed this time.

Every time I see 'Brown Scare', I think of, oh, say.
Beaches closed for elevated faecal coliform counts...
 
A thought:
McCarthy and Co. charged their enemies with being communist agents that sabotaged US efforts and 'lost' China. If there's a Nazi victory, perhaps something similar, only directed against fascist sympathizers and bascially anyone they thought didn't quite do their job?

I dunno about the 'and Co.' part, but McCarthy's efforts (in the brief time he had any power) were directed at actual spies and infiltrators in the state department and elsewhere, unless these fascists actually infiltrate the government, they're not going to get any attention.
 
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