The new age of McCarthyism
A lot of people are currently comparing the firing of pro-Palestinian actors and entertainers to the Mccarthyist era of the Cold War and the Hollywood Blacklist, but what does this mean?
In the last few months:
Susan Sarandon got dropped by her talent agency
Melissa Barrera was fired from Scream 7
Tom Cruise's agent, Maha Dakil almost lost her job as an agent, but she did get fired as Co Chief of Motion Pictures Department
A lot of people are currently comparing it to the McCarthyist era of the Cold War and the Hollywood Blacklist, but what does this mean?
During the Cold War, the Hollywood Blacklist was designed to keep people out of the film industry, whether they deemed them to be communist or sympathizing to the cause.
10 Hollywood figures, otherwise known as the Hollywood 10, were called out for their ties to communism. They were imprisoned, and after they were released, they were blacklisted.
Anyone who had affiliations with them, with them barred from the film and entertainment industry, thousands of people who had affiliations or connections suffered setbacks to their careers.
This suffocated creativity, it eliminated countless artists, and it changed Hollywood forever.
It's Hollywood's collective desire to do what's best for the studios, and they'd rather leave collectives hanging dry.
Think about what the WGA and SAG AFTRA were striking for.
The workers have always been the sharpest thorn in the side of studio execs. The execs don't want to potentially disrupt their bottom line and alienate movie goers.
Since the Hollywood blacklist, the anti-leftist sentiment continues in Hollywood and America today. Back then, any impact on an individual American was deemed irrelevant in the face of fighting the great threat of Russia, or communism.
But now, instead of communism, replace it with being scared of saying words like 'genocide'.
This is why so many celebrities are scared to speak out.
There is a concerted effort to punish anybody that speaks out about Israel.
Hollywood is willing to uphold their status quo in any way that they can to maintain their imperial media hegemony, keep profiting, and not disrupt their bottom line.
But most of all, continue their narrative to manufacture consent and justify their actions on their involvement in the genocide and ethnic cleaning of Palestine.