Talk:First Red Scare

PROBLEM:

Too many of the sources are from Communist/Socialist/Labor publications. The biased use of sources could possibly be detrimental to the validity of this article.

As long as the facts are there, I don't see a problem. And even from these sources, it is clear that there was a problem with people who wished to impose their view of the world on society by the bomb, not the ballot. How far a society can go to protect itself from such people is an ongoing debate, but the purpose of the article is just to lay out what happened. If you have some other sources to help do this, put them in. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 76.191.135.66 (talk) 18:39, 29 October 2009 (UTC)

Are you stupid? "Facts" as YOU call them are not facts if they are from extreme sources. Whoever is writing these articles is obviously a fool. Stop miseducating people! —Preceding unsigned comment added by 69.117.23.44 (talk) 22:16, 15 July 2010 (UTC)

'Extreme' itself is a subjective word as it's meaning can vary between people. Facts are what we know, what is certain without any subjectivity or moral judgement. The human is capable of figuring this out on their own if they have a generalized understand of a language and each word's meaning. Your name calling other person's in this discussion is perfect example of a descriptive word that is subjective to your person about another. Misinfornation like the words you used can be spotted simply by using logical capabilities of our shared human species. 2601:45:500:B850:6D25:373A:DAEE:977D (talk) 10:53, 8 August 2024 (UTC)

marked by a widespread fear of far-left movements, including Bolshevism and anarchism,

Anarchism is not far-left, why is that even included? Jjbomb (talk) 05:46, 8 February 2025 (UTC)

Anarchism was originally a far-left ideology and continues to be so (excepting the claimed “ancaps” of course). Do you have any reliable sources claiming otherwise? 50.116.165.41 (talk) 14:22, 2 June 2025 (UTC)

There is no source that explicitly says Anarchism is far-left, ancaps like me exist, Anarchism simply means no centralized government Jjbomb (talk) 01:55, 26 June 2025 (UTC)

Death Toll?

The infobox states 165 people were killed in the First Red Scare. There's no citation for this claim, nor does it explain who the casualties were or who killed them. Is it referring to the people killed by police during the arrests of left-wing activists, deaths in the race riots, deaths from labour strikes or people killed in anarchist terror attacks? This number of 165 is not mentioned anywhere else in the page. Michael Sieger (talk) 02:07, 17 December 2025 (UTC)