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Slate Magazine: Karina Longworth- The Hollywood Ten Paid The Price For Refusing to Answer The $64 Question

Source:The Daily Review I blog about political correctness and what I at least see as fascism on a regular basis. Perhaps one piece a week, because its such an important issue today with free speech coming under assault practically everywhere … Continue reading

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The Hollywood Reporter: Victims of Hollywood’s Blacklist

Source:The Hollywood Reporter I don’t think there’s anything more Un-American and Un-liberal democratic as punishing people simply because of what they believe and their politics. But that is what the U.S. House of Representatives decided to do in 1946-47 and … Continue reading

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Matthew Hormann: The Hollywood Ten, 1950

Source:Matthew Hormann I don’t want to sound overly partisan here, but this was one of the ugliest anti-American, anti-liberal democratic, illiberal periods in American history. Where Americans were judged by who they associated with and political causes they supported and … Continue reading

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Jnuss Bau: The Hollywood Blacklist: 1947-1960

. The late 1940s and all the way up to at least the mid-1950s or so was one of the most fascist illiberal and anti-liberal democratic periods of our time. I think elements of today’s Tea Party and the Ann … Continue reading

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Radical Films: VHouse Un-American Activities: Looking For Communists in Hollywood

. Source:The New Democrat  The House Un-American Activities Committee and then later the Joe McCarthy Government Oversight Committee in the Senate were classic cases of guilt by association. Because they assumed some Americans were Un-American and not deserving of being … Continue reading

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