Red Scare Canon — Cultural References from the Subreddit

Cinestill 400 (concept) 1 — Film photography stock used by a photographer in Chicago, praised for its aesthetic results in cold weather conditions.

Brave Space (concept) 1 — DEI training term for a circle discussion format used in educational settings, criticized as performative and counterpro...

Pocahontas (person) 1 — Historical Native American figure whose Disney representation became the subject of a DEI training exercise about cultur...

ALEC (place) 1 — Organization mentioned as drafting policy that state legislators adopt, connected to private prison corporations

Tamir Rice (person) 1 — Victim of a shooting by police, referenced in comparisons to the Kyle Rittenhouse case

Jacob Blake (person) 1 — Person shot by police whose case sparked protests that led to the Kyle Rittenhouse incident

CRT (concept) 1 — Critical Race Theory, mentioned sarcastically by liberals as something people should study to understand criminal justic...

Sinti Roma (concept) 1 — Romani ethnic group that Germany is accused of neglecting in its post-war reparations compared to its treatment of Jewis...

Hassan Nasrallah (person) 1 — Hezbollah leader whose death is referenced in comparison to the reported killing of Hamas leader Yahya Sinwar.

Jaguar (concept) 1 — British luxury car brand criticized for abandoning its classic old-money appeal in a controversial rebrand.

Sentimental Value (film) 1 — New film by Joachim Trier that audiences treated inappropriately by laughing throughout as if it were a comedy

The Birds (film) 1 — Alfred Hitchcock film where audiences inappropriately laughed during suspenseful and dramatic scenes, particularly the d...

MST3K (film) 1 — Mystery Science Theater 3000, a show referenced when describing annoying audience members who make running commentary du...

Chicago Tribune (place) 1 — Newspaper that published an article about the Minneapolis ICE shooting incident that sparked heated debate

Kim Novak (person) 1 — Actress mentioned alongside Brigitte Bardot as an example of someone criticized for 'aging badly' despite being in their...

Camilla Parker Bowles (person) 1 — British royal at 75 who is criticized for looking old, though the post argues this is absurd given her age

Snowtown murders (concept) 1 — A series of murders referenced in connection with people obsessed with punishing pedophiles, used as an example of suspi...

Evanescence (album) 1 — A band mentioned in a complaint about how zoomer mallgoths no longer listen to expected subculture music.

Steam Powered Giraffe (album) 1 — A band referenced as the expected music for 'ugly dnd nerds' in a complaint about everyone listening to top 40 rap.

Toby Keith (album) 1 — A country musician referenced as expected music for 'obese construction workers' that they no longer listen to.

Spanish Empire (concept) 1 — A historical empire referenced in explaining that California's Spanish city names came from Spanish colonizers, not Mexi...

Bebop (concept) 1 — A jazz movement cited as an example of elite movements emerging in response to popular stagnation, parallel to modernism...

Fight Song (album) 1 — A song referenced as emblematic of peak 'woke neoliberalism' during the 2016 era.

Mt. Si (place) 1 — A hiking location near Seattle mentioned in the context of an acquaintance refusing to hike until the activity is more e...

Westborough Baptist Church (place) 1 — A controversial religious group suspected by the poster of being FBI-funded to demoralize anti-military sentiment by pro...

Baycol (concept) 1 — A pharmaceutical drug that caused at least 50 deaths and resulted in a 1.2 billion dollar settlement, used as comparison...

Star Wars: A New Hope (film) 1 — The original 1977 Star Wars film, praised for its kitschy aesthetic and lower production values compared to modern films...

One Tree Hill (film) 1 — A television series that became less watchable as its production quality increased over time.

Say So (album) 1 — A Doja Cat song criticized as an example of overly produced modern pop music that sounds artificial.

Halo 3 (film) 1 — A video game praised for its aesthetic compared to newer Halo releases which are described as ugly and abrasive.

E-Chinacities (place) 1 — A website for finding English teaching jobs at Chinese universities.

TEFL (concept) 1 — Teaching English as a Foreign Language certification that can be obtained online quickly for teaching jobs in China.

Marxism-Leninism (concept) 1 — The official ideology of China's one-party dictatorship government.

Modi (person) 1 — Indian political leader mentioned in connection with Tulsi Gabbard potentially being a BJP plant.

BJP (concept) 1 — Indian political party that Tulsi Gabbard may have ties to through her Hindu cult connections.

Peter Mandelson (person) 1 — British Labour Party politician described as one of the most poisonous members of the Labour right

The Sublime Object of Ideology (book) 1 — Book containing a Hegelian joke about a Pole and a Jew illustrating how truth arises from misrecognition, cited in discu...

Gerald Ratner (person) 1 — Jeweler who infamously called his own products crap in a speech, causing £500m to be wiped off company value and losing ...

The Big Other (concept) 1 — Lacanian/Žižekian concept of collective symbolic fiction that was revealed regarding Dogecoin when Elon Musk admitted it...

Redbubble (place) 1 — Online marketplace for stickers and designs, referenced as the source aesthetic for bad white women's tattoos

PRIME (concept) 1 — Sports drink brand consumed by a child with an extremely limited processed food diet.

r/fivethirtyeight (place) 1 — Subreddit that should be focused on data science and polling but instead is filled with partisan political humor posters...

Lakeview (place) 1 — Neighborhood in Chicago mentioned as area dominated by Big 10 school alumni social bubbles.

Young Americans for Freedom (concept) 1 — Conservative student organization that was allegedly coddled by a university despite threats from its Republican club pr...

Rand Paul (person) 1 — U.S. Senator whose complaints about mobs were contrasted with AOC's more effective vulnerability performance

The Snow Leopard (book) 1 — Book by Peter Matthiessen about conservation that a poster was reading at a bar when an old codger struck up a conversat...

Peter Matthiessen (person) 1 — Author of The Snow Leopard who once went on a hunting trip in South Africa and is discussed in connection with conservat...

Asma al-Assad (person) 1 — Assad's wife with whom he allegedly discussed opening an ophthalmology clinic

Tass (place) 1 — Russian news agency that reported Assad landing in Moscow

Non-Binary (concept) 1 — Gender identity outside the male-female binary that a poster finds confusing despite being accepting of it, contrasting ...