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Home Front: Culture Wars
Flipping Hollywood's Blacklist Narrative
2015-01-30
h/t Instapundit
Once on a British talk show in the early 1970s, anticommunist actor John Wayne startled the host by acknowledging that there was indeed a Hollywood blacklist. Wayne's follow-up, however, made the host's jaw drop even farther; the blacklist, he stated, wasn't wielded by industry anticommunists against Communist Party members, but by the reverse. It was for this reason, Wayne stated, that he enlisted in the anticommunist fight in order to defend conservative screenwriters and get them back on the payroll.
We know you have to be a "good person" = sharing 100% of their opinions to get any kind of a white collar job today. And not just in USA
Posted by:g(r)omgoru

#2  Blacklist has largely been a Freudian projection. Oh, and collaboration/cooperation/sympathy with the Soviet did occur. Like a kid caught with his hand in the cookie jar, "I didn't do it".
Posted by: Procopius2k   2015-01-30 08:55  

#1  See Roger L. Simon for corroboration and details.
Posted by: AlanC   2015-01-30 08:05  

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