Red Scare Canon — Cultural References from the Subreddit

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

Tankie (concept) 1 — Political term that liberals have recently discovered and misapply, becoming an annoying online phenomenon

The Lorax (film) 1 — Dr. Seuss story satirically discussed as a left-liberal parable about environmentalism vs. capitalism

Amanda Marcotte (person) 1 — Liberal feminist writer predicted to promote a sex strike in response to Texas abortion laws

Careerism (concept) 1 — The prioritization of career advancement over genuine passion or calling, criticized as contributing to academia's decli...

Ordoliberalism (concept) 1 — German economic philosophy mentioned as part of a passionate professor's comprehensive approach to teaching German econo...

Christian Mingle (concept) 1 — Faith-based online dating platform mentioned as part of the category of dating apps that are destructive to men's self-e...

Mạt pháp (concept) 1 — Buddhist concept referring to a degenerate world where Buddha's teachings have been forgotten, associated with apocalypt...

Moment Magazine (place) 1 — Jewish publication cited as source regarding American Jews serving in the IDF

Larry Page (person) 1 — Google co-founder mentioned as example of billionaire who keeps political activities discrete unlike Elon Musk

American South (concept) 1 — Regional identity claimed as the only Anglo New World ethnic group to develop a true folk-community independent of exter...

Alpha School (place) 1 — Austin-based experimental school with no teachers where children learn purely from AI for $40k annually

Magic Treehouse (book) 1 — A children's book series with 100-page books used as an example of easy reading that 'formerly gifted kids' misremember ...

Metamorphs (book) 1 — A children's book series mentioned alongside Magic Treehouse as easy reading material with large fonts and whitespace

Gene Wilder (person) 1 — Actor accepted as the only legitimate portrayal of Willy Wonka, contrasted with later interpretations

Stoic (place) 1 — Tel Aviv firm that executed Israel's disinformation campaign targeting US lawmakers using fake social media accounts.

Ministry of Diaspora Affairs (place) 1 — Israeli government ministry that secretly organized an influence campaign targeting US lawmakers to garner support for G...