Red Scare Canon — Cultural References from the Subreddit

Beirut (place) 7 — Lebanese city experiencing Israeli bombing including phosphorus attacks on civilian infrastructure like paramedic center...

Iliad (book) 7 — Ancient Greek epic poem that depicts war not as glorious but as something men experienced with reluctance and suffering.

Democratic Party (concept) 7 — The American political party discussed as having undergone a rapid shift toward institutional conformity and suppression...

Indeed (place) 7 — Job review website where employee reviews revealed pattern of ghosting and unprofessional firing practices at Crumbl Coo...

Overton Window (concept) 7 — A political theory referring to the range of policies politically acceptable to the mainstream population at a given tim...

AITA (concept) 7 — A subreddit (Am I The Asshole) characterized as a potential psy-op designed to give people trust issues through dramatic...

Rolling Stone (place) 7 — Music publication criticized for promoting manufactured pop artists like Lizzo and Billie Eilish as generation defining.

Great Depression (concept) 7 — Economic crisis of the 1930s documented by the FSA/OWI archive in photographs of American life during this period and Wo...

Wall Street Journal (place) 7 — Major newspaper criticized for its editorial board's detached attitude and equivocal coverage of Trump administration po...

Madonna-whore complex (concept) 7 — A psychological concept describing the dichotomous view of women as either pure or degraded, discussed as a historical p...

Phoenix (place) 7 — Fifth largest U.S. city that receives little discussion on the subreddit compared to smaller cities, potentially due to ...

Jimmy Kimmel (person) 7 — Late-night talk show host criticized as having no charisma or talent, described as the embodiment of corporate self-flag...

Pete Hegseth (person) 7 — Fox News personality and Trump's defense secretary nominee whose military career peaked at training Afghan forces and wh...

Martin Luther King Jr. (person) 7 — Civil rights leader mentioned in a nihilistic argument that even history's most revered figures engaged in the same vice...

Charles Dickens (person) 7 — Victorian English novelist discussed as being better than reputation suggests, with humor and prose style compared to Te...

BIpoc (concept) 7 — An acronym that appeared on Twitter, perceived by some as made up by English degree holders from predominantly white col...

Roe v Wade (concept) 7 — U.S. Supreme Court decision whose overturning sparked protests in countries with more restrictive abortion laws, illustr...

Vegas (place) 7 — Las Vegas, proposed as the setting for a Jersey Shore-style reality show featuring frat bros, sorority girls, and Austra...

Megan Thee Stallion (person) 7 — Female rapper praised for initial work but criticized for repetitive flow, victim narrative, and lame anime references, ...

Muhammad (person) 7 — The Islamic prophet discussed as having no verifiable miracles to prove his prophethood, with claims about the splitting...

NASA (place) 7 — US space agency discussed in context of allegedly admitting that deadly radiation exists beyond low Earth orbit and dest...

Depop (place) 7 — A secondhand fashion marketplace referenced sarcastically as representing the professionalization and commercialization ...

CVS (place) 7 — Pharmacy chain criticized for having overly complex automated phone systems even for small local stores where customers ...

Pacific Northwest (place) 7 — Region referenced in an anecdote about a wealthy gay boomer patron of an LGBT strip club who drives a luxury car and bri...

4B Movement (concept) 7 — South Korean feminist movement with approximately 4,000 adherents on a forum out of 25.8 million women in the country, c...

Wall Street (place) 7 — Financial district referenced as a workplace where investment banking was described as 'god's work,' used to compare the...

Jacob Elordi (person) 7 — An actor criticized as an overhyped thirst trap industry plant who gets roles based on popularity rather than talent

Venice (place) 7 — Italian city discussed as an over-touristed destination that the poster believes should require tickets to enter

MCU (concept) 7 — Marvel Cinematic Universe movies praised as technically well-done and creative achievements in translating comic books t...

Jezebel (place) 7 — Feminist website whose content about consent and harassment is described as having negatively influenced a user's confid...

John F. Kennedy (person) 7 — 35th U.S. President whose assassination is sarcastically described as being carried out by a single gunman acting comple...

The Wizard of Oz (film) 7 — A film described as a colorful gay utopian story about social outcasts unmasking impotent kings, symbolically connected ...

Giorgia Meloni (person) 7 — Italian Prime Minister discussed as likely to be the first to finish her term despite not being particularly competent, ...

eBay (place) 7 — An online marketplace whose inventor recently died, with a joke made that his life was boring until the last few minutes...

Naruto (film) 7 — A fictional anime character used as an example of how people flatten characters by diagnosing them with mental disorders...

Wong Kar-wai (person) 7 — Film director whose dreamy aesthetic is loved by a user seeking movie recommendations similar to Millennium Mambo.

Jerry Springer (person) 7 — Television host whose show featured a stereotypical couple dynamic of crackhead men with fat women, referenced in discus...

Duolingo (place) 7 — A language-learning platform mentioned as a metric of cultural interest, where Korean has more learners than Chinese des...

Stockholm (place) 7 — Swedish capital city where a user moved back to after studying abroad, struggling with career instability.

Pope Francis (person) 7 — Recently deceased Pope who advocated for Palestine and cited Donna Haraway, whose death deeply affected a poster who had...

Lower East Side (place) 7 — New York City neighborhood referenced as a significant artistic community during Jenny Holzer's era in the late 1970s an...

Roger Waters (person) 7 — Pink Floyd musician praised as the coolest old rock star for being anti-war socialist, not a pedophile, and respecting h...

Milwaukee (place) 7 — Wisconsin city mentioned by a non-American poster as an example of obscure American cultural knowledge they possess, spe...

Akira Kurosawa (person) 7 — Japanese filmmaker referenced as a cultural touchstone for discussing shared interests in relationships, specifically ab...

James Cameron (person) 7 — Film director mentioned in context of having successfully executed manned dives to the bottom of the Mariana Trench, con...

Amtrak (place) 7 — American passenger rail service compared unfavorably to flying due to expense and time, used as example of tech workers'...

Stormfront (place) 7 — White supremacist website and forum sarcastically referenced as a place where the poster claims to share Red Scare podca...

Sam Levinson (person) 7 — Creator of Euphoria criticized for not caring about maintaining the show's teenage setting despite long delays between s...

Holden Caulfield (person) 7 — The protagonist of The Catcher in the Rye, discussed as unfairly maligned for his emotional volatility following his bro...

Seoul (place) 7 — Capital of South Korea described as a dystopian hellhole characterized by phone addiction, extreme educational pressure,...