Red Scare Canon — Cultural References from the Subreddit

Belize (place) 2 — A Central American country mentioned as a hypothetical escape destination for a finance worker contemplating crime.

Just Kids (book) 2 — Patti Smith's memoir that represents the romanticized version of New York cultural history, compared to Donald Judd essa...

Chris Hayes (person) 2 — MSNBC host who appeared as a guest on Colbert's show, described with thin lips and a perfectly circular face

Mount Athos (place) 2 — An Orthodox Christian monastic community in Greece, referenced as a refuge from internet culture and modern society

Junya Watanabe (person) 2 — Japanese fashion designer referenced when Kanye West quotes his own lyrics about Junya Watanabe during an encounter in a...

Lumpenproletariat (concept) 2 — Marxist concept referenced critically as demographic leftists appeal to instead of working families in discussion of fem...

Godfather (film) 2 — Francis Ford Coppola's 1972 crime film, mentioned as being better than its sequel The Godfather Part II.

Andre 3000 (person) 2 — Hip-hop artist and half of OutKast, compared to his partner Big Boi in a user's controversial musical opinion.

J.G. Ballard (person) 2 — British novelist whose grave rubbing from England is mentioned as a teaching aid shared between two writer-teachers teac...

magical realism (concept) 2 — Literary genre that fans fear will be reduced to a 'trope' and misunderstood as a 'soft magic system' by mainstream Netf...

Battle Royale (film) 2 — A film by Kinji Fukasaku that the poster avoids mentioning on first dates because women are grossed out when men like Ja...

Killing Commendatore (book) 2 — Novel by Haruki Murakami that the poster recently read but wonders if mentioning would trigger women's aversion to Japan...

Marfan syndrome (concept) 2 — Genetic disorder referenced by a poster who feels it throws off body proportions and facial features despite staying in ...

Blue Jays (concept) 2 — Baseball team recommended as entertaining baseball to watch instead of the Savannah Bananas

Magic Mike (film) 2 — Stripper film referenced as having more honor than the Savannah Bananas because at least it had a storyline and wasn't a...

Nick Kroll (person) 2 — Actor mentioned as appearing in Don't Worry Darling alongside other attractive people in an idyllic community setting.

Hugh Jackman (person) 2 — Actor criticized for being treated as a draw in a Deadpool movie despite having already appeared in ten similar movies o...

Planet of the Apes (film) 2 — Film franchise whose latest sequel is described as looking like 'Andrei Rublev or something' compared to other contempor...

The Holdovers (film) 2 — Film that the poster was watching when they had to sit through disappointing blockbuster trailers.

Impressionism (concept) 2 — Art movement criticized as 'basic bitch' when posted to the subreddit in 2024, contrasted with the cooler, more unique a...

Rick & Morty (film) 2 — Animated TV show referenced as representative of pretentious anti-intellectualism appealing to elder millennials.

Evangelical Christianity (concept) 2 — Religious movement discussed in conspiracy theory about churches using attractive men to recruit young women while exclu...

Elton John (person) 2 — Commercially successful musician argued to be underrated as a critical artist despite his massive pop success and genius...

Super Smash Bros (concept) 2 — Fighting game referenced through the 'Smash player phenotype' to describe a stereotypical awkward Black nerd

Nayib Bukele (person) 2 — President of El Salvador who locked up approximately 1.7% of the population, massively reduced crime, and established au...

Ibiza (place) 2 — Spanish island discussed in a debate about pronunciation, with the poster arguing it should be pronounced with a Z sound...

r/CanadaHousing2 (place) 2 — A Canadian subreddit that has apparently become a venue for xenophobic discussions about Punjabi immigrants.

Erich Fromm (person) 2 — Author mentioned in discussion about dream interpretation and symbolic language.

Todd McGowan (person) 2 — Theorist working in the Lacanian and Hegelian tradition, associated with Žižek but noted as a clearer writer, author of ...

Eckhart Tolle (person) 2 — Spiritual teacher and author on consciousness referenced as one of the thinkers someone tried to help with anxiety

Agoraphobia (concept) 2 — Anxiety disorder characterized by fear of places and situations, mentioned by user who has moderate to severe agoraphobi...

Battle of Stalingrad (concept) 2 — Considered by most historians to be the greatest battle of WWII that stopped German advance into the Soviet Union and ma...

Louis Farrakhan (person) 2 — A controversial figure referenced in Jay Electronica's verse on Noname's album with the line 'If anybody asks, tell 'em ...

Zbigniew Brzezinski (person) 2 — Political strategist whose nightmare scenario of a geopolitical axis between China, Russia, and Iran is referenced as be...

Gulf War (concept) 2 — Military conflict remembered for its spectacular imagery that bonded the American nation according to Debordian analysis...

Breathless (film) 2 — French New Wave film referenced through its iconic "New York Herald Tribune" sweater that inspired a shirt worn by the p...

Anyone but You (film) 2 — Film starring Sydney Sweeney with a $25 million budget that grossed more worldwide than Killers of the Flower Moon despi...

Mary Magdalene (person) 2 — Biblical figure an ex-boyfriend believed his ex-girlfriend was a reincarnation of in a book where he portrayed himself a...

Born This Way (concept) 2 — The argument that homosexuality is biologically innate, critiqued in a detailed post examining scientific evidence and a...

Big Pharma (concept) 2 — Pharmaceutical industry referenced as being full of 'the worst people alive' in discussion of vaccine hesitancy

Powerpuff Girls (film) 2 — Animated TV show referenced for an episode featuring a 'retarded' sister character and a drag queen lobster villain

Hajj (concept) 2 — Major Islamic pilgrimage to Mecca that attracts 4 million people and requires entering a state of ritual purity called I...

Oberlin (place) 2 — Liberal arts college referenced satirically in a copypasta mocking elite leftist cultural attitudes and academic pretens...

Lacanian psychoanalysis (concept) 2 — Psychoanalytic theory by Jacques Lacan, referenced satirically as a marker of pretentious leftist academic culture

World Bank (place) 2 — International financial institution predicted to collaborate with WEF and IMF in maintaining migration flows to suppress...

IMF (place) 2 — International Monetary Fund predicted to work with WEF and World Bank to maintain migration streams for economic purpose...

Bolivia (place) 2 — South American country whose water privatization imposed by World Bank led to violent conflict and deaths

Candy Crush (concept) 2 — Mobile game pre-installed on Windows computers as unwanted bloatware that users cannot remove.

Trevor Bauer (person) 2 — MLB baseball player who was expelled from the league after accusations later revealed to be orchestrated for financial g...

r/hockey (place) 2 — Reddit hockey community characterized as '2010s soy' and exhibiting typical Reddit responses to rape case verdicts.