Red Scare Canon — Cultural References from the Subreddit

Barbara Bush (person) 1 — Daughter of George W. Bush who dated a user's friend Nick at Yale during her father's presidency, described as resistant...

Laura Bush (person) 1 — Former First Lady and wife of George W. Bush who reportedly ended her daughter Barbara's relationship after Page Six cov...

Page Six (place) 1 — Gossip publication that ran an exposé on Barbara Bush's boyfriend, portraying him as a campus bad boy

Penélope Cruz (person) 1 — Spanish actress cited as an example of a woman who has aged amazingly

Sumatra (place) 1 — Indonesian island where the poster's grandfather worked as a logger and trade unionist, witnessing violent labor dispute...

Communism (concept) 1 — Political ideology referenced as part of the poster's forgotten working-class family roots in Indonesia

Angela Bassett (person) 1 — Actress praised on r/Fauxmoi as deserving Oscar recognition over white nominees

Stephanie Hsu (person) 1 — Actress from Everything Everywhere All at Once praised on r/Fauxmoi as deserving Oscar recognition

Jason Mraz (person) 1 — Singer-songwriter falsely rumored to work at someone's company, prompting reflection on how entertainers cope with fadin...

Lil Mosey (person) 1 — Rapper cited as an example of a celebrity with notably low IQ, described as having a vacant look

Josh Peck (person) 1 — Actor whose appearance in Oppenheimer was so jarring it took viewers out of the movie experience

MuggleNet (place) 1 — Harry Potter fansite mentioned in connection with a woman who has a restraining order for stalking its administrator.

Cary Grant (person) 1 — Classic Hollywood actor mentioned as an example of someone who trained to change their voice.

Linda Sun (person) 1 — Former New York government official charged with being a 15-year Chinese sleeper agent in top state government positions...

Grover Washington Jr. (person) 1 — Jazz musician whose song 'Just the Two of Us' played in a grocery store after a fatal motorcycle accident.

Just the Two of Us (album) 1 — Song by Grover Washington Jr. that played incongruously in a grocery store after a fatal accident.

Stone Butch Blues (book) 1 — Lesbian novel downloaded by a straight woman attempting to pass as a lesbian after using a slur.

Hockey Canada (place) 1 — Canadian hockey organization involved in a sexual assault trial of pro-hockey players with issues regarding victim testi...

Aalborg Zoo (place) 1 — Danish zoo that appeals to the public to donate unwanted pets to feed its predators.

Mustang (concept) 1 — Ford sports car brand criticized for making a crossover SUV variant, symbolizing the boring homogenization of American a...

Sisyphean Task (concept) 1 — Reference to the Greek myth of Sisyphus, used to describe endless repetitive labor of sweeping water from a leaking boil...

Harvard Law (place) 1 — Elite law school discussed in a story about a student whose passion project was injecting Ayn Rand's Objectivist philoso...

Objectivism (concept) 1 — Ayn Rand's philosophical school that a Harvard Law student sought to inject into American legal discourse

Capitalism: the Unknown Ideal (book) 1 — Collection of essays by Ayn Rand that a Harvard Law student called revolutionary and tried to sell for $10

Harvard Law Review (place) 1 — Harvard Law School's legal journal that was not publishing a student's Objectivist op-eds

Capital (book) 1 — Marx's work published at the start of European imperialism that introduced the concept of commodity fetishism as a criti...

Max Horkheimer (person) 1 — Author of 'The Little Man and the Philosophy of Freedom,' a two-page piece that illustrates Marx's concept of commodity ...

The Little Man and the Philosophy of Freedom (book) 1 — Two-page piece by Horkheimer that effectively illustrates Marx's concept of commodity fetishism

Adam Smith (person) 1 — Referenced as one of the bourgeois revolutionaries whose hopes for conscious human production were blocked by industrial...

The Lobster (film) 1 — A Yorgos Lanthimos film praised for having more authentic ideas and performances of femininity, masculinity, and desire ...

The Favorite (film) 1 — A Yorgos Lanthimos film noted for its authentic portrayals of femininity, female desire, and female wickedness.

Fraud (book) 1 — A novel by Anita Brookner quoted in discussion of male fantasies about women performing sophistication in public and bei...

Anita Brookner (person) 1 — Author of the novel Fraud, quoted in discussion of male fantasies about sophisticated women with salacious private lives...

LeBron (person) 1 — NBA player referenced in criticism of Redditors who compare professional athlete workplace dynamics to their own office ...

John Muir (person) 1 — Naturalist and conservationist invoked in praise of the Sierra Nevada mountains and wilderness experience.

Sierra Nevada (place) 1 — Mountain range in California celebrated as a natural paradise that validates John Muir's wilderness philosophy.

Demi Moore (person) 1 — Actress who gave a great performance in The Substance, portraying a character undergoing body horror transformations.

Five Eyes (concept) 1 — Intelligence alliance whose surveillance backdoors were exposed by Edward Snowden and are allegedly being exploited by C...

Blackbird (album) 1 — A Beatles song with high notes that reveals the wear in Paul McCartney's aging voice during live performances.

Maybe I'm Amazed (album) 1 — A Paul McCartney song with challenging high notes that exposes the limitations of his aging voice in live performance.

Owncast (concept) 1 — Open source streaming platform described as 'basically open source twitch' that enables self-hosted streaming with chat ...

Fast 9 (film) 1 — Fast and Furious franchise film during which a Reddit user had a seizure requiring EMTs and the movie to be stopped.

Rome, Georgia (place) 1 — Town in Georgia with population of 36,000, referenced as example of American audacity in appropriating European place na...

Hysteria (book) 1 — T.S. Eliot prose poem that is parodied in a humorous post about an awkward lunch encounter with a woman.

Roller derby (concept) 1 — Contact sport mentioned as the context in which the poster discussed Reddit with their teammates.

Jolly Wumper (person) 1 — Reddit user known for their escapades on r/redscarepod whom the community was concerned about after their absence.

Zone of Interest (film) 1 — Film directed by Jonathan Glazer, discussed in connection to his earlier work directing music videos.

Kiryas Joel (place) 1 — Hasidic Jewish ethnotown in New York with 30,000 inhabitants, criticized for welfare dependency

Social atomization (concept) 1 — The breakdown of real-life social spaces theorized to make men relatively less attractive and women more attractive thro...

THC (concept) 1 — Psychoactive compound referenced as inspiration for a theory about social atomization and attractiveness