Timeline for Request to reopen the Joe McCarthy question
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| Aug 26, 2013 at 21:37 | comment | added | user2590 | Correlation does not imply causation. Without substantiation, this question amounts to nothing but idle speculation. We could indulge in the same sort of speculation about virtually every major historical figure whose ideas corresponded somehow to some work of fiction that was published during their era. This question belongs on SE.Area51, not here. | |
| Aug 26, 2013 at 16:39 | answer | added | Felix Goldberg | timeline score: 2 | |
| Aug 26, 2013 at 13:34 | answer | added | T.E.D.Mod | timeline score: 3 | |
| Aug 26, 2013 at 6:57 | comment | added | coleopterist | @YannisRizos The question itself is about the book itself which, as the question notes, was released in 1951. (Heinlein was also more a Conservative than a Democrat although he didn't like such labels. One thing was sure: he was vehemently anti-communist just like McCarthy.) | |
| Aug 25, 2013 at 14:30 | comment | added | yannis | I don't see how the question could be rephrased into a history one. You claim that Heinlein and McCarthy had "similar ideologies", but your question doesn't reference Heinlein's ideology, but the ideology expressed in a book of fiction Heinlein wrote. I don't doubt the two men have had some similar ideas & opinions, but let's not forget that politically they were on opposite sites (Heinlein was a Democrat). imho the question is not build around historical facts, but conjecture. An interesting question, but not one that's suitable for a Stack Exchange site. | |
| Aug 25, 2013 at 10:07 | history | asked | coleopterist | CC BY-SA 3.0 |