Red Scare Canon — Cultural References from the Subreddit

USA Today (place) 1 — News organization that released a poll showing Kamala Harris's podcast appearances made most listeners less likely to vo...

Newsweek (place) 1 — News publication that reported on Kamala Harris skipping the Joe Rogan podcast.

Isabelle Adjani (person) 1 — French actress mentioned in a post discussing physical phenotypes and appearances.

Gillian Anderson (person) 1 — Actress mentioned in a post discussing physical phenotypes and appearances.

Lily Loveless (person) 1 — Actress mentioned in a post discussing physical phenotypes and appearances.

Madeline Argy (person) 1 — Public figure mentioned in a post discussing physical phenotypes and appearances.

WTC (place) 1 — World Trade Center, referenced in connection to someone's 9/11 experience walking down 38 stories during the attacks.

Ben Shapiro lesbian (person) 1 — Mentioned as one of the old weird regular posters from the subreddit who has disappeared.

Kiss On My List (album) 1 — Yacht rock song referenced in a post fantasizing about an upper middle class mentally ill girlfriend.

River Jordan (place) 1 — Biblical site of Jesus's baptism, compared to Luigi Mangione's psychedelic experiences with divine consciousness.

Garden of Gethsemane (place) 1 — Biblical location where Jesus prayed before his arrest, compared to Luigi Mangione's current moment in jail.

r/RSfood (place) 1 — Subreddit created for Red Scare community members to post cooking and food content.

Summer of George (concept) 1 — Reference to a Seinfeld episode used to describe Trump administration's approach of doing too much too fast and making t...

Bishop Mariann Edgar Budde (person) 1 — Episcopal Bishop who delivered a sermon asking President Trump to show mercy to LGBTQ people and immigrants, resulting i...

National Cathedral (place) 1 — Washington D.C. cathedral where Bishop Budde delivered her sermon to President Trump about mercy during a post-inaugural...

Book of Wisdom (book) 1 — Biblical text from Catholic and Orthodox Bibles cited to illustrate Christian teaching that the powerful will be tested ...

Ambrose of Milan (person) 1 — Fourth-century Catholic bishop who wrote to Roman Emperor Theodosius urging repentance after a massacre and advocating f...

Desiderius Erasmus (person) 1 — 16th-century Dutch Catholic priest who wrote The Education of a Christian Prince, advising Christian leaders to pursue p...

The Education of a Christian Prince (book) 1 — Book by Desiderius Erasmus that advises Christian rulers to pursue peace, leniency, clemency, and forgiveness in their e...

Pristiq (concept) 1 — An SSRI antidepressant medication mentioned in the context of tapering off with severe physical withdrawal symptoms

Tegan and Sara (person) 1 — Musical duo mentioned as part of stereotypical lesbian/queer women's music

Western Protestantism (concept) 1 — Religious tradition critiqued as combining individualist hustle culture, therapy speak, and hostility to refined intelle...

Dave and Busters (place) 1 — Entertainment venue referenced in a parody of Glengarry Glen Ross's famous speech

Scott Alexander (person) 1 — Rationalist writer criticized for absurd AI predictions including world leaders consulting AGI for statecraft by 2030

Bayes theorem (concept) 1 — Mathematical theorem used by rationalist community as a marker of intellectual sophistication

Rastafarianism (concept) 1 — Religious movement mentioned in relation to Bob Marley and its unique form of Zionism

Steve Cohen (person) 1 — Congressman mentioned as being part of a storyline in The Rehearsal about airline safety

Chase Strangio (person) 1 — Trans male ACLU lawyer who argued before the Supreme Court on trans healthcare bans for adolescents and wrote a confessi...

Graza (concept) 1 — Olive oil brand that packages Spanish olive oil in squeeze bottles labeled 'Sizzle' and 'Drizzle,' criticized for rebran...

Native (concept) 1 — Soap and body wash brand criticized for charging double the price of regular soap.

Olly (concept) 1 — Vitamin gummy brand offering neon supplements for sleep, beauty, and energy with similar ingredients to regular vitamins...

Magic Spoon (concept) 1 — Protein cereal brand priced at $20 per box, criticized for being overpriced compared to buying chicken for protein.

Lesser Evil (concept) 1 — Pastel-packaged popcorn brand owned by a Zionist and criticized for being high in saturated fat despite health marketing...

Ocean's Eleven (film) 1 — Heist film that a user believes does not belong on the New York Times' 100 Best Movies of the 21st Century list.

Guardian (place) 1 — News publication mentioned as not having the same annoying comment section vibe as the New York Times.

Pearson (concept) 1 — Company that sells expensive textbook access codes, criticized as a burden at community colleges.

KMT (concept) 1 — Kuomintang political party that the poster predicts will somehow win the Chinese Civil War before the 21st century ends.

Aaron Taylor-Johnson (person) 1 — Actor referenced in explicit sexual context on a gay sex Twitter account.

Abenaki (concept) 1 — Indigenous people referenced in satirical context about performative land acknowledgments in corporate settings.

Lenape (concept) 1 — Indigenous people referenced in satirical context about performative land acknowledgments and corporate diversity practi...

The Hurt Locker (film) 1 — War on Terror film criticized by a viewer who fell asleep during it, representing the disappointing state of GWOT protes...

Forest Lawn (place) 1 — Cemetery where dying deer gather, site of meditation on death and animal pilgrimage in a surreal narrative.

Tonawanda (place) 1 — Location in Western New York where deer properly go to die in the forest outside the town.

Cognitive Security (concept) 1 — Emerging concept of protecting one's cognitive capacities from colonization by AI and LLMs, described as the new OPSEC i...

Cognitive Offloading (concept) 1 — Process of delegating cognitive tasks to AI that leads to memory leak and degradation of critical thinking and problem-s...

Folie à deux (concept) 1 — Shared psychotic disorder referenced in context of collective online delusion and arguing with non-existent people on th...

Basques (concept) 1 — Small ethnic group numbering around 60,000 in the Roman Empire that survived Indo-European invasions, Roman assimilation...

NRSV-CE (book) 1 — Translation of the Bible (New Revised Standard Version Catholic Edition) used for a collection of favorite Bible verses

Mark (book) 1 — Gospel of the Bible cited for verses about evil coming from within the human heart and having eyes but failing to see

Luke (book) 1 — Gospel of the Bible cited for the verse about good and evil coming from the heart's abundance