[PapaBear3625]

Doing some googling for "John Birch" racism brings up some items which indicate that Leftists/Communists have tried to paint the JBS as a racist and antisemitic organization. To render an organization "beyond the pale", all that's needed is to make an accusation that they are racists, anti-semites, etc, with no real evidence being required.

[DoughtyOne]

Thanks. That was my suspicion from the get go. I think you’re right from what others have been saying.

[Bokababe]

"Doing some googling for "John Birch" racism brings up some items which indicate that Leftists/Communists have tried to paint the JBS as a racist and antisemitic organization."

I don't know much about the JBS, other cringing reflexively when some one brought them up as an authoritative source.

But, it would not be a long shot to guess that the JBS supported States Rights during the Civil Rights era, opposing Johnson's Great Society federal actions. That, alone, could have gotten them branded "racists".