Red Scare Canon — Cultural References from the Subreddit

Amman (place) 1 — Capital of Jordan referenced in discussion of cool Arab guys with good taste in music and film

Sahel (place) 1 — Egyptian coastal resort area referenced in discussion of wealthy Egyptian families' summer villas

Alexander Pushkin (person) 1 — Russia's most celebrated poet who died in a duel after being mocked for rumors of his wife's affair with a French milita...

ChatGPT 4o (concept) 1 — OpenAI's image generation model that a content creator finds worrying for its ability to produce indistinguishable AI co...

Dinka (concept) 1 — Sudanese ethnic group that the post author romanticizes as part of their 'expert race-ologist' categorization hobby.

Baloch (concept) 1 — Pakistani ethnic group that the post author romanticizes as part of their study of micro-races.

Finns (concept) 1 — Finnish ethnic group mentioned as one of the poster's current fascinations in their romanticization of different ethnici...

Yankees (place) 1 — New York baseball team referenced in a Seinfeld-style dialogue comparing attending an orgy to attending a Yankees game.

Newman (person) 1 — Seinfeld character who hosts orgies in a fan-written episode scenario where Kramer DJs with free jazz.

Free Jazz (album) 1 — Musical genre that Kramer plays as DJ at Newman's orgies in a fan-written Seinfeld scenario, killing the mood.

Abraham Joshua Heschel (person) 1 — Rabbi and philosopher quoted on racism being 'the maximum amount of hate for a minimum of reasons' in discussion of cons...

Sociological Imagination (concept) 1 — Conceptual framework that conservatives allegedly lack, failing to connect individual outcomes to broader social structu...

Exxon (place) 1 — Oil company whose internal documents acknowledged global warming, used as example of evidence that conservatives refuse ...

Your Fave is Problematic (concept) 1 — Influential Tumblr blog that catalogued celebrities' problematic behavior, now acknowledged by its creator as an early f...

Art School (place) 1 — London institution where the poster attended for their MA and became swept up in trans allyship culture, later regrettin...

Allyship (concept) 1 — Social justice practice of showing solidarity with marginalized groups, which the poster engaged with at art school by w...

Google Teams (place) 1 — Workplace communication platform mentioned alongside Slack as defining tech workers' limited social interaction

Al-Qassem Brigades (place) 1 — Hamas military wing mentioned in satirical Babylon Bee article about Biden

Peak District (place) 1 — British national park championed by a British man as superior to American parks primarily for being green

J Balvin (person) 1 — Reggaeton artist whose music is played in big box retailers and described as immediately annoying

Train (album) 1 — Band exemplifying inoffensive wallpaper music of the 2000s now replaced by more aggressive retail soundscapes

Air India (place) 1 — Indian airline whose crash was initially blamed on Boeing but appears to have been deliberate pilot action

Longtermism (concept) 1 — A philosophy associated with effective altruism that prioritizes the long-term future of humanity in moral decision-maki...

The Late Show (film) 1 — A long-running late-night talk show hosted by Stephen Colbert, discussed as being cancelled due to poor financials rathe...

Salvador Allende (person) 1 — Chilean president overthrown in a U.S.-backed coup, referenced by Colombia's president as an example of American imperia...

Simón Bolívar (person) 1 — Latin American liberator and warrior who fought for freedom across South America, invoked by Colombia's president as a s...

Jorge Eliécer Gaitán (person) 1 — Colombian political leader referenced by the president as a symbol of Latin American dignity and resistance.

Caliphate of Cordoba (place) 1 — Medieval Islamic civilization in Spain, cited by Colombia's president as part of Colombian cultural heritage.

PMC Liberalism (concept) 1 — A form of liberalism characterized by adherence to strict etiquette and values that its practitioners deny exists, claim...

Brainrot (concept) 1 — AI-generated stimulating videos created by third-world clickfarms for children that eventually become legitimized as cul...

Oneida (person) 1 — Experimental band cited as an example of the kind of artist indie labels used to sign before the business model shifted ...

Interscope (place) 1 — Major record label to which indie supergroup Boygenius ascended, representing the commercialization of indie music

Down's syndrome (concept) 1 — Genetic disorder whose sufferers are often infantilized as 'innocent angels,' similar to how autism is sometimes portray...

Dolce and Gabbana (person) 1 — Italian fashion brand with an exhibit in Rome

DOJ (place) 1 — Department of Justice opening criminal investigation into Federal Reserve renovation spending as political retaliation

Yosemite (place) 1 — National park valley referenced in poetry posted to the subreddit as a place of desired settlement and rest.

Phuket (place) 1 — Thai city mentioned in a humorous post about sexual encounters in various locations.

Gdansk (place) 1 — Polish city mentioned in a humorous post about sexual encounters in various locations.

The Barter 6 (album) 1 — Album by Young Thug cited as potential counterexample to claims that musical innovation is exhausted.

120 Days of Sodom (book) 1 — Notorious work by Marquis de Sade hidden in the Bastille and rediscovered in 1904, featuring extreme transgressive conte...

Bastille (place) 1 — French prison where Marquis de Sade wrote and hid 120 Days of Sodom before the fortress was stormed.

1 Corinthians 11:6 (book) 1 — Biblical verse quoted by conservatives against women with short hair, specifically pixie cuts.

Metric (album) 1 — Band whose song "Black Sheep" was covered by Brie Larson in the Scott Pilgrim soundtrack.

Colbert Report (film) 1 — Stephen Colbert's satirical news show, cited as part of his earlier "glory days" before his late night show.

Long March (concept) 1 — Historic military retreat and strategic withdrawal of the Chinese Communist Party that established Mao's leadership.

Four Modernizations (concept) 1 — Deng Xiaoping's pragmatic reform program that transformed China's economy while maintaining party control.

Red Guards (concept) 1 — Mao's youth militia during the Cultural Revolution who paralyzed Deng Xiaoping's son by throwing him from a window.

Spider-Man: Into The Spiderverse (film) 1 — Animated superhero film cited as a favorite by an untalented film student who built a successful Instagram meme page.

Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (concept) 1 — Comic book series that radicalized an accountant toward alt-right politics after a new writer introduced progressive the...

War Room (concept) 1 — Right-wing political podcast that the radicalized accountant began listening to at work.