American intellectuals saw prejudice as a worse evil than communism

Evidence

After the War, came the realignment of world powers into communist and democratic blocs. In this country the wartime solidarity with Russia was forgotten and Soviet Communism replaced German fascism as the principal villain in world affairs. American intellectuals were not as ready as the national majority to anathematize communists; the two fascist themes of prejudice and political reaction seemed worse evils to us. — John T. Jost and Jim Sidanius, Political Psychology, 433 (#corroborates, via linked claim)

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: American intellectuals feared anticommunism itself more than communism in the early Cold War — John T. Jost and Jim Sidanius, Political Psychology, 433; Postwar anti-communist consensus marginalized radical American literary theorists — Aijaz Ahmad, In Theory: Nations, Classes, Literatures, 85

Broader Connections

• American intellectuals feared anticommunism itself more than communism in the early Cold War #corroborates (0.92) — John T. Jost and Jim Sidanius, Political Psychology, 433