Saying anything bad about Communists is McCarthyism, doncha know?
That's what I learned in high school. I was also taught that they were just like us, but with a different perspective. This was in 1972. Being shouted down in class was no more pleasant then, I'm sure, than it is now.
No...it's about discrimination toward someone for their ideology. You can talk bad about Communism all day long.
Watch me...communism sucks eggs, communism stinks, communism kills, communism makes you a slave. See...I didn't get struck by lightening!