The word ‘Communist’ is still tantamount to heresy

I just happened upon a YouTube interview of Robert Redford and Barbara Streisand on Oprah Winfrey’s show. It included a clip of “The We Way Were.” Streisand’s role in the movie was described something like ‘a young women whose outspoken political activism placed her on the margins.’ No mention of the fact that she belonged to the Communist youth organization. Is the word Communist still that taboo? Now that being a ‘socialist’ is no longer a high crime or misdemeanor (thanks in part to Bernie), one would have thought that corporate media may make occasional non-derogatory references to Communists and that the word would be something less than scandalous. Wishful thinking.