February 17, 2021 at 1:08 PM
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Disney fired Gina Carano.
The internets blew up. Screams of cancel culture and comparisons to the Hollywood Blacklist emerged in abundance.
I have no opinion on her firing. I do, however, have a strong opinion about comparing her firing to the Hollywood Blacklist. It’s wrong, for so many reasons. So please stop doing it.
Let’s explore this comparison with five key points:
Carano was fired, not boycotted. The Hollywood Blacklist was a group boycott. Anyone on that list was believed to be a member of the Communist Party USA (CPUSA) or a leftist group with intent to overthrow the government. The House Unamerican Activities Committee (HUAC), the precursor to McCarthyism, called witnesses to discover how deeply Hollywood, academia, and other industries were entrenched with communists. Refusal to testify for any reason put you on the Blacklist. If someone named you, you were put on the Blacklist. Any hint of sympathy for the CPUSA put you on
Portrait of Bill Davis at CPUSA headquarters in New York, 2007; oil on canvas. | Yevgeniy Fiks
Bill Davis, a long-time trade union and peace activist and Communist Party USA leader, died Jan. 23 in New York while in hospice with COVID-19. He was 78 years old.
Davis was a caseworker for the New York City Department of Welfare (later Social Services) and a fixture in the trade union movement. As an AFSCME Local 371 member, he was elected shop steward to the local’s Executive Committee, one of the local’s delegates to the NYC Central Labor Council, and an active retiree.
Bill Davis
In one sense, the Sack of the Capitol on Jan. 6 was the farce that launched 1,000 snips.
Snip: “From years of covering white nationalists and the alt-right, I already knew that the right contained violent and anti-democratic elements,” Buzzfeed reporter Rosie Gray wrote. “What Jan. 6 showed was how deeply even the nice church ladies and retired grandpas who have nothing to do with those groups have descended into an alternate universe.”
Snip: You could have replaced Gray’s byline with that of Violet Blue,
New York Chimes, or Scarlet Green,
Chicago Baboon, and the words would have been almost the same. One message has been standard for years among liberals: The right is fascist. The new twist is extreme:
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Trump is being tried before the US Senate, where many of the members are “fake people,” longtime Russian assets paid through accounts in the Cayman Islands. Many of them are “cuckoos,” or “walkins.”
Some senators are being threatened, not by militia types but by senior Federal officials from law enforcement related agencies. It isn’t about Trump, it’s about closing the door on where a real investigation of Trump would lead, not just to Moscow but back here, to four generations of fake people.
Sometimes they are called “Manchurian Candidates.” Many ask if John McCain was “turned” as a POW or if Trump was recruited by Cohn in the 70s or by Russia through his Ivana in 1987 as The Guardian implies.
By Capt Joseph R. John
An order was issued by Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin that all members of the US Armed Forces must take a 60 day stand down, to address “extremism”, he, Biden, Harris with the stealth direction of Obama are falsely accusing some of the 2+ million service members of harboring“ extremists and white supremacists in the ranks”! It is unprecedented, unnecessary, and a dangerous practice that will create instability and worry among career members of the US Armed Forces.
Supposedly, Biden, Harris, and Obama, who is in involved in the decision making process of the issuing Executive Orders, say they want to end Systemic Racism in America. Systemic Racism just doesn’t exist in America like it exists in Communist China, Iran, Communist Cuba, Communist Venezuela, and many African and Middle East Countries. America is the least racist country in the world, yet members of the Biden Administration imply that many members of the US Armed Forces are i