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McCarthyism fashionable again in Hollywood?
« on: January 31, 2021, 06:45:02 pm »
McCarthyism fashionable again in Hollywood?
By Christian Toto, opinion contributor — 01/31/21 01:00 PM EST

Hollywood stars have cosplayed the McCarthy Era for the past four decades. Movies like “The Front,” “Good Night, and Good Luck,” “The Majestic,” “Guilty by Suspicion,” “Trumbo” (the documentary) and “Trumbo” (the Bryan Cranston film) explored the period’s anti-Communist hysteria and the Hollywood Blacklist.

Can you blame them?

Take away the scandalous hearings and imprisonments and you’re left with one indisputable truth: The era dispatched with the all-American right to think and speak as you see fit.


Goodbye, and good riddance to all things McCarthy … until now.

The same industry forever reliving that disgraceful period has little to say as Big Tech giants compete to see who can silence conservative thought first.

Except when the stars are actively cheering it on.

Twitter deplatformed Donald Trump days before he left the Oval Office. Other tech behemoths like Facebook and Instagram quickly followed suit — and Hollywood Inc. couldn’t clap its hands any faster. Stars like Chrissy Teigen, Mark Ruffalo, Whoopi Goldberg, Mark Hamill and Sacha Baron Cohen, whose original, “problematic” “Borat” film might be canceled if it hit theaters today, hailed the move without reservation. Julia Louis-Dreyfus of “Veep” and “Seinfeld” fame wondered aloud what took Twitter so long.

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Re: McCarthyism fashionable again in Hollywood?
« Reply #1 on: January 31, 2021, 10:33:27 pm »
Hollywood's ONLY objection to what McCarthy did was his choice of victim.  They agreed wholeheartedly with his idea of purging...after all, their guru Stalin mastered the technique.

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Re: McCarthyism fashionable again in Hollywood?
« Reply #2 on: January 31, 2021, 10:54:06 pm »
Most of Hollywood is comprised of bat crap crazy liberal mental midgets and quite frankly, they can kiss my grits.
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Re: McCarthyism fashionable again in Hollywood?
« Reply #3 on: January 31, 2021, 11:14:37 pm »
Frankly, I'm all for the notion of "McCarthyism".
Mr. McCarthy was RIGHT.
He was right back then, and still right today.

I endorse the concept of "blacklists" to be used against communists and muslims to keep them out of positions that could be used to influence the young.

Sorry if anyone here is upset about that.
My mind ain't changin'...
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