Red Scare Canon — Cultural References from the Subreddit

The Sawmill (1922) (film) 1 — A silent comedy short by Larry Semon featuring Oliver Hardy, described as a trope-laden parody with intense slapstick, c...

Larry Semon (person) 1 — Silent film comedian who was as popular as Chaplin or Buster Keaton in the early 1920s and directed The Sawmill, though ...

Oliver Hardy (person) 1 — Actor who appeared in The Sawmill (1922) as one of the bad guys before becoming famous as part of Laurel and Hardy.

Cause For Alarm! (film) 1 — A classic suburban noir starring Loretta Young as a housewife being gaslit from beyond the grave who must retrieve a let...

Loretta Young (person) 1 — Actress who starred in the suburban noir Cause For Alarm! as a housewife being gaslit from beyond the grave.

Freak On A Leash (album) 1 — A song by nu-metal band KoRn used as entrance music for playful wrestling activities.

TYT (place) 1 — The Young Turks, a media outlet used as a comparison point for normie-tier politics slightly better than r/stupidpol.

Peak Woke (concept) 1 — The idea that the 2020-era woke cultural moment has ended and people should stop engaging with or posting about it.

Wallace and Gromit (film) 1 — British stop-motion animation series featuring a were-rabbit character that became the subject of a girlfriend's childho...

Meet the Grahams (album) 1 — A Kendrick Lamar track that Anthony Fantano was allegedly on cocaine while reacting to, according to an observer.

Debbie Wasserman Schultz (person) 1 — Former DNC chair involved in the 2016 Democratic primary controversy with Bernie Sanders, criticized for undermining dem...

2016 DNC (concept) 1 — The 2016 Democratic National Committee campaign characterized by being out of touch with youth culture and making cringe...

Catbird Seat (place) 1 — Fine dining restaurant in Nashville that serves micro portions and is remembered as the poster's best meal to date.

Trabzon (place) 1 — Turkish city mentioned in context of nationalist overreaction to criticism of travel experiences.

Nationalism (concept) 1 — Political ideology that becomes transparently ridiculous when observed in foreigners due to lack of shared cultural indo...

Typhoid Mary (person) 1 — Historical figure referenced to describe the poor quality and unsanitary conditions of rental apartments.

Anna Lembke (person) 1 — Expert on dopamine regulation whose approach to life, along with Huberman's, is considered fundamentally correct about m...

Dopamine theory (concept) 1 — Neurological concept that modern entertainment has industrially optimized dopamine hijacking, creating mass behavioral s...

Stromae (person) 1 — Belgian musician cited as example of endemic European corniness that seems at odds with Europe's more respectable aesthe...

Fairly OddParents (film) 1 — Animated cartoon that taught the poster about contract fine print and secret clauses.

Yakuza (concept) 1 — Japanese organized crime syndicate referenced in the context of cultural acceptance of gang violence in media

Joseph Goebbels (person) 1 — Nazi propaganda minister invoked as representation of extremist online political discourse

Sackler Family (person) 1 — Pharmaceutical family behind the opioid crisis, mentioned as someone the poster doesn't care about in contrast to their ...

Sam Rayburn (person) 1 — 20+ year House leader who LBJ cultivated as a political mentor and surrogate father figure

John Connally (person) 1 — Future governor of Texas and LBJ's best friend, who was collateral victim in the Lee Harvey Oswald shooting

Douglas MacArthur (person) 1 — General who personally awarded LBJ a Silver Star for a dangerous bombing mission in the Pacific

Abe Fortas (person) 1 — Future impeached Supreme Court Justice who helped LBJ avoid arrest for election fraud by finding legal loopholes

Sysco (concept) 1 — Food service distributor associated with cheap, hyperprocessed restaurant ingredients derisively termed 'Syscoslop'

Second Amendment (concept) 1 — U.S. constitutional right to bear arms, discussed in the context of ideological role reversals between liberals and cons...

Arrowhead Stadium (place) 1 — Kansas City stadium satirically referenced in a post about Taylor Swift

Atari (concept) 1 — Early video game console used as historical comparison to dismiss concerns about modern technology

Bush administration (concept) 1 — Presidential administration referenced in comparison to current prudish attitudes on the subreddit

Camp David (place) 1 — Presidential retreat where the Biden family held a weekend meeting after the debate

Benghazi (place) 1 — Libyan city referenced in context of oil field conflicts involving kidnapped Sudanese workers

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...