pickI listened to the audiobook of Red Scare and found it really captivating. The story goes far beyond the grandstanding McCarthy Senate hearings; so many careers and lives were ruined by anti-communist fervor and by the parallel investigations of the Lavender Scare, by Hollywood's rapid capitulation, and by the slightest association with labor or civil rights groups labeled communist-adjacent. The echoes with our own turbulent times are unmistakable
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If you have lived through a few decades, then you know that for some reason, the past repeats itself. During the 1940s and 1950s, at the beginning of the Cold War, America became a country scared of communism. WWII had just ended, and the USSR (as Russia was known then) was taking over Eastern Europe, the Keoran War had started, and there was a move to take over China, it was the perfect storm for the Red Scare. The government got ⬇️
Up next for book club, and my current read. #FirstSaturdayReaders
pickBlacklisted actor Paul Robeson summed it up best in a letter he wrote to Charlie: "...fascists everywhere hated you for your anti-Nazi film, The Great Dictator. Well, Hitler and his gang are gone, but Chaplin and his art lives on! And your name will be honored --yes, here in America, too --long after McCarthy and his kind are buried in oblivion.".
Indeed.
It was intrinsically absurd...until Donald Trump.
Now reading : the Indictment
pickThis was very good. Polio, McCarthyism, space aliens, the Korean War - the 1950s was a pretty scary place.
Walsh mentions Hergé as an influence, and I can really see the Tin Tin vibe in some of the panels.
