How is this different from "McCarthyism" OR Looks whose PC Culture cam back to bite him in the ass
Fordham U. prof fired after mixing up two black students in
class
A Fordham University professor was fired after mixing up the
names of two black students in class, according to a report.
Hours after what he called an “innocent mistake,” lecturer
Christopher Trogan, 46, sent a rambling, nine-page email to students in his
Composition II classes explaining the faux pas — and defending, without being
asked, his “entire life” of working on “issues of justice, equality, and
inclusion,” the campus newspaper reported.
“The offended student assumed my mistake was because I confused
that student with another Black student,” Trogan wrote, according to a Nov. 29
article in the Fordham Observer. “I have done my best to validate and reassure
the offended student that I made a simple, human, error. It has nothing to do
with race.”
He blamed the mistake on his “confused brain” when the two
students arrived to class late on Sept. 24, while he was reading a classmate’s
work.
Several students said Trogan’s bizarre overreaction, rather than
making a simple apology, made matters worse for him.
The email was “a little excessive,” one of the two black
students, freshman Chantal Sims, told the Observer. “We were not actually that
upset about him mixing up our names. It was more so the random things he would
throw into the response.”
In the email, he urged any students upset by the incident to
complain to the school. “Depending on your response to the officials above, I
may — or may not — be your professor in class next week. It’s all up to you,”
he wrote.
Sims told the paper Trogan’s email stressed “everything he has
done for minorities.”
He was fired Oct. 29, the paper reported.
“Trogan was a nice teacher for the 5 classes that I had him for,
but he never attempted to get to know me personally (in a 14 person class),”
wrote one newspaper commenter who claimed to be in the Composition II class. “I
don’t think he deserved to get fired, but his response to a small issue was
what blew the entire thing up.”
Fordham spokesman Bob Howe told The Post the school “takes
personnel matters very seriously,” but claimed “media representations regarding
this issue do not reflect the facts in Dr. Trogan’s case.” He refused to
elaborate.
Trogan was a popular instructor, according to dozens of reviews
on Rate My Professor.
“He doesn’t quite let on how much he knows and what he’s
accomplished, but he is quite brilliant but humble and not stuck up,” a former
student wrote.
Neither Trogan, his union nor Sims returned messages. The second
student, who has remained anonymous, declined to comment to The Post through an
intermediary.
Is it possible? An actor with principles?
John Cleese decided to cancel
himself and call off a planned appearance at Cambridge University after a
fellow attendee was "blacklisted" for doing an impersonation of Adolf
Hitler.
Taking to Twitter ahead of his
planned appearance, Cleese, who is a Cambridge alumnus, noted that he was
getting ahead of being "blacklisted" by calling off his appearance
after art historian Andrew Graham-Dixon was blacklisted by Cambridge Union
President Keir Bradwell for doing a mocking rant as Hitler to make a point in a
debate about whether or not "good taste" exists.
"I was looking forward to
talking to students at the Cambridge Union this Friday, but I hear that someone
there has been blacklisted for doing an impersonation of Hitler," the
82-year-old "Monty Python" and "Fawlty Towers" comedian
noted. "I regret that I did the same on a Monty Python show, so I am
blacklisting myself before someone else does."
In a follow-up tweet, Cleese
added: "I apologise to anyone at Cambridge who was hoping to talk with me,
but perhaps some of you can find a venue where woke rules do not apply."
According to Variety, the Union,
whose motto is "Defending Free Speech Since 1815," boasts more than
70,000 members worldwide and is the oldest debating society in the world and
the largest student society in Cambridge.
In a statement provided to the
outlet, Bradwell said: "We were really looking forward to hosting John
here. It would have been a really fantastic event and our members are really
excited to hear from him. The documentary he is making is extremely topical. We
very much hope that we will be able to host him at some point – he’s the kind of
speaker that would thrive with our audience and in our room."
Bradwell noted that he is trying
to work with Cleese to get him to reconsider his decision not to appear.
According to The Guardian, it’s
fitting that Cleese would take issue with the situation given that he was
reportedly appearing at the university along with the team making a documentary
series involving him about cancel culture titled "Cancel Me."
The BBC reports that Graham-Dixon said he was
trying to "underline the utterly evil nature of Hitler." However, he
subsequently apologized for the impersonation.
The Compassion of Hollywood's social scientists
Kyle Rittenhouse mocked by
Hollywood after tearful display on stand: 'Terrible f---ing actor'
The teen is accused of killing
two people and wounding a third during police brutality protests in Kenosha
last year
By Julius Young | Fox News
November 11
Hollywood is speaking out over a
video showing Kyle Rittenhouse crying in court while testifying in his murder
trial.
On Wednesday, the 18-year-old
broke down on the stand in a Kenosha, Wisconsin, circuit court as he recounted
the August 2020 shooting that left two people dead and one injured during last
year’s Black Lives Matter protests.
"Kyle Rittenhouse is a
murderer. The End," actress, Rosanna Arquette wrote on Twitter, while
actor Dave Bautista fumed, "F--k that kid!"
The video, which shows
Rittenhouse crying hysterically, also drew a response from Los Angeles Lakers
star LeBron James who pressed send on a tweet asking Rittenhouse, "What
tears?????"
"I didn’t see one,"
James added. "Man knock it off! That boy ate some lemon heads before
walking into court."
Rittenhouse is charged with two
counts of homicide, one count of attempted homicide, recklessly endangering
safety and illegal possession of a dangerous weapon by a person under 18.
He was 17 when he and at least
one friend said they traveled to the Wisconsin city from Illinois to protect
local businesses and provide medical aid after two nights of businesses being
looted and set on fire.
Others in Tinseltown also
expressed their reactions to Rittenhouse’s display as he recounted the fatal
shootings, which his lawyers have argued repeatedly that their client was
acting in self-defense, and fired his semi-automatic rifle because he was being
chased or faced with a gun.
"This is how the first take
of a crying scene can look. Weeks of anxiety to push the tears out and you come
up empty," actor Kevin Zegers tweeted.
"Top Chef" host Padma Lakshmi (Below) wrote: "Time for America to redefine what it means to be a "promising young man,"
"All you need to know. What a s—t show," tweeted comedian Brian Guest (below) of Schroeder’s cell phone ringing during the trial, playing the Greenwood song "I’m Proud to Be an American."
Being named as a Communist caused John Garfield to have a heart attack.
Well, no, not really. Despite
long-term heart problems, Garfield was a
smoker and drink. When he died he was in the midst of a divorce. On the morning
of May 20, Garfield, against his doctor's strict orders, played several
strenuous sets of tennis with a friend, mentioning the fact that he had not
been to bed the night before. He met actress Iris Whitney for dinner and
afterward became suddenly ill complaining that he felt chilled. She took him to
her apartment, where he refused to let her call a doctor and instead went to
bed. The next morning, she found him dead.
Adelaide Klein
Adelaide Klein (July 8, 1900–March 18, 1983) was an actress who
performed on radio, television, films, and the stage. She was best known for
her dialects as a radio performer. Klein began her radio as a singer in the
late 1920s. However, demand for her talents with dialect and as a character
actress led her to acting full-time by 1933.
Klein performed in a variety of radio programs, including portraying Hilda, the maid in We, The Abbotts, Dragon Lady in Terry and the Pirates Agatha Meek in Meet Mr. Meek, and a Russian countess in The House on Q Street. She also was heard in Sometime Before Morning. Klein mastered use of 12 dialects in radio performances.
According to Wikipedia;
In the mid-1940s, Klein was
active in the American Federation of Radio Artists (AFRA) and served as a
delegate for New York at national conferences in 1943 and 1944.. Klein was one
of 56 delegates for New York at national conferences in 1943 and 1944, where
she worked with others, including Donna Keath, Minerva Pious, Ann Shepherd,
Selena Royle, and Hester Sondergaard.
Klein was listed in the
blacklisting publication, Red Channels: The Report of Communist Influence in
Radio and Television in 1950. She
continued to perform in theatre, but television roles dried up as a consequence
of Klein being labelled a communist.”
Well, no. That’s not true at all.
Klein, a radio vice over actor since the
1920s, had a small career in TV and film,
a career never really too off at all. By 1952, when her career essentially
ended, she was 49 years old, ancient by Hollywood standards, and played mostly
bit part, going unaccredited in several of her prime time appearances.
1964 The Troublemaker (Film)
1963 Marathon '33 (Theater)
1958 Decoy (TV Series)
1958 Jane Eyre (Theater)
1955. Once Upon A Tailor (Theater)
1954 The Immoralist (Theater)
1952 Collector's Item Theater
1951 Two Girls Named Smith (TV
Series)
1951-1952 Lights Out (TV Series) She made three appearances
in three different episodes
1951 Somerset Maugham TV Theatre
(TV Series) She made three appearances in three different episodes.
1949-1951 The Clock (TV Series) She appeared
in two episodes
1951 The Enforcer (Film)
1951 Two Girls Named Smith (TV
Series)
1950 The Web (TV Series)
1950 Hands of Mystery (TV Series)
1950 The Philco Television
Playhouse (TV Series)
1950 The Ford Theatre Hour (TV
Series)
1949 Studio One (TV Series)
Uncredited in two episodes that she
appeared in.
1949 The Boris Karloff Mystery
Playhouse (TV Series)
1949 The Big Story (TV Series)
1949 Suspense (TV Series)
1949 C'-Man (TV Series)
1949
The Guiding Light (Radio)
1948 The Naked City (Film)
1946 Lights Out (Film)
1942 Uncle Harry (Theater)
1941 Brooklyn USA (Theater)
1936 Double Dummy. (Theater)
The lefts 40 year old practice of not forgiving
What’s happening in
American society is a transformation of one of the best aspects of America and the
American people, it is the death of forgiveness, it is almost the death of
second chances. We have seen this death of forgiveness if you pay attention at
all to what's going on in the world. There are people in this country, that if
you make one mistake, they will try to end you, ruin you destroy you, cancel
you, they will never forgive you and they will smear you with your own mistake
forever. Even minor mistakes which they will use against you until the end of
time. They will make sure that whenever your name is broached, your mistake is
broached as well. They will have you noted and marked tainted. You are corrupt,
there's a mark on your soul that cannot be rubbed out no matter what you do,
you must live with your sin branded on your forehead.
Consider broadcaster Megan Kelly's
clumsy remarks on blackface. Her Twitter feed from now on, forever and always,
will be filled with people who will call her a racist even after she apologized, devoted an
entire show to trying to understand the issue deeper and sincerely understand
the issue, But it didn't matter. This is the new scarlet letter in digital form.
) Or consider comic Kevin Hart. He is forever associated with a joke he made about his son
potentially being gay. He was disinvited from hosting the Oscars for that joke,
a joke he made years prior. What are the real consequences of this death and
forgiveness? First people don't speak up, don't speak their mind, they are too
guarded. It happened when I was at university. I can vouch for this speaking up
as someone who is slightly conservative. I knew that speaking up always brought
risks. What if I misspeak? What if I'm thinking out loud searching for answers
and I say something wrong? Congratulations I just ruined my life.
Jordon Peterson
Jack Gilford wasn't blacklisted
In 1956 he told the House un-American activities subcommittee that he was "blacklisted” in the entertainment field because his name once was listed in "Red Channels’’
He was not a communist but refused to say whether he had resigned from the party specifically to be able to sign an affidavit of non-membership in the party.
Gilford invoked the Fifth Amendment in reply to questions on whether he had ever been a member of the party however.
1959-1961
Play of the Week (TV
Series)
- Waiting for Godot
(1961)
- World of Sholom
Aleichem (1959) ... Bontsche Shveig / Angel
1959
The World of Sholom
Aleichem (TV Movie)
Look After Lulu (Mar
03, 1959 - Apr 04, 1959)
Play
1958
Drink to Me Only (Oct
08, 1958 - Dec 13, 1958)
Play
Romanoff and Juliet
(Oct 10, 1957 - Sep 13, 1958)
Play
1956
The Edge of Night (TV
Series)
The Diary of Anne Frank
(Oct 05, 1955 - Jun 22, 1957)
Play
1953
Main Street to Broadway
1951
All Star Revue (TV
Series)
The Billy Rose Show (TV
Series)
1950
Musical Comedy Time (TV
Series)
- Hit the Deck (1950)
Star Time (TV Series)
1949-1950 Actor's Studio (TV
Series)
- Screwball
- Here Comes Spring
Alive and Kicking (Jan
17, 1950 - Feb 25, 1950)
Musical Revue
The Live Wire (Aug 17,
1950 - Sep 09, 1950)
Play
Agent Unlce Walt
Walt Disney started reporting on the Hollywood crowd to the FBI 1941, and continued reporting to them until his death. How much Walt could have told them is debatable since all of Hollywood knew him to be a member of the Alt-right. The Bureau made him an honorary agent in the 1960s.
Death of a Defector: Ion Mihai Pacepa,
Ion Mihai Pacepa was never totally free. He was a wanted
man, hunted by the Romanian government.
By Paul G. Kengor
Editor’s note: This article first appeared at The American
Spectator.
On February 14, 2021, the world quietly lost one of the most
intriguing, enduring figures of the Cold War. He was Lt. Gen. Ion Mihai Pacepa,
the highest-ranking Soviet Bloc official ever to defect to the United States.
Throughout the 1970s, Pacepa had been arguably the top
official in communist Romania, behind only the insane and vicious dictator
Nicolae Ceaușescu. He served Ceaușescu in numerous capacities, including as
intelligence chief and liaison between the brutal Securitate and the KGB. He
knew where bodies were buried.
After yet another request by Romanian goons to bloody his
hands, Pacepa had enough. One day in the summer of 1978, he slipped into the
U.S. embassy in West Berlin while on routine business for the Romanian madman
who was his boss. He said he wanted to defect. He was hustled out in a
late-night flight to the United States — a country he came to love.
“It was noon when the U.S. military plane bringing me to
freedom landed at the U.S. presidential airport inside Andrews Air Force Base
outside Washington, D.C.,” he later told our mutual friend David Kupelian. “It
was a glorious, sunny day outside…. I had an overwhelming desire to dance
around in a jig all by myself. I was a free man! I was in America! The joy of
finally becoming part of this magnanimous land of liberty, where nothing was
impossible, was surpassed only by the joy of simply being alive.” He continued,
“On that memorable day of July 28, 1978, when I became a free man, I fell to my
knees and I prayed out loud for the first time in more than a quarter of a
century. It took me a while. It was not easy to find the right words to express
my great joy and thanks to the good Lord. In the end, all that I asked for was
forgiveness for my past, freedom for my daughter and strength for my new life.”
Forgiveness and freedom. And yet, Pacepa was never totally
free. He was a wanted man, hunted by the Romanian government.
Once in the United States, Pacepa lived in undisclosed
locations, dodging a $2 million bounty placed on his head by his homeland.
Communists officials were enraged when Pacepa in 1987 published (via Regnery)
his shocking memoir of the Ceausescu era: Red Horizons: The True Story of
Nicolae & Elena Ceausescu’s Crimes, Lifestyle, and Corruption. (The book
was reviewed with highest praise by Michael Ledeen in the April 1988 issue of
The American Spectator.) Hit squads were dispatched to assassinate him. They
never found him. And ironically, Pacepa’s grisly account of Nicolae and his
equally cruel and crazy wife Elena would be used as evidence for their
conviction and execution by a firing squad of Romanian citizens on Christmas
Day 1989.
Pacepa long outlived the Ceaușescu menace. Now, over four
decades after the brutal regime began targeting him, Pacepa’s life has ended.
He died at the age of 92, a victim of COVID-19.
I never had the pleasure of directly meeting Pacepa, given
that he was always in hiding, though we emailed frequently for years. He went
by the name “Mike,” the Anglicized version of “Mihai.” He had at least two
aliases that would pop up sometimes when I got emails from him. His email
address was cryptic, starting with an upper-case letter and followed by seven
numbers and then @aol.com. I’m tempted to share the email address here
publicly, but doing so would offer no great value. Besides, I never had
permission from him to share his email address publicly.
I often got his emails in response to my articles here at
The American Spectator, of which he was an avid reader. He and I even
co-authored a piece, “Obama’s Sword and Shield,” for The American Spectator in
May 2013 (he also did a piece for this magazine in June 2009). Pacepa was a fan
of this publication.
I believe Pacepa first reached out to me in 2010, when I
published my Cold War tome, Dupes. Pacepa was cited a number of times, particularly
for his disturbing insights into how easily communist officials were able to
manipulate gullible progressives in the West. That was a subject that troubled
and perplexed Pacepa; it fascinated him but also nagged at him. He had seen it
from the Truman years through Vietnam and still into the 21st century.
“They were like putty in our hands,” said Pacepa of the
ability of Western liberals to be duped by communists, from the “strong leftist
movements [in Western Europe] that we secretly financed” to the vast amounts of
disinformation cooked up and spoon-fed to Western liberals who gobbled it up.
Consider Vietnam: “During the Vietnam War,” said Pacepa, “we
spread vitriolic stories around the world, pretending that America’s presidents
sent Genghis Khan-style barbarian soldiers to Vietnam who raped at random,
taped electrical wires to human genitals, cut off limbs, blew up bodies and
razed entire villages. Those weren’t facts. They were our tales.” (Recall a
young John Kerry’s 1971 Senate testimony.) They were lies. Nonetheless, said
Pacepa, millions of Americans “ended up being convinced their own president,
not communism, was the enemy.”
According to Pacepa, it was the odious Yuri Andropov, then
head of the KGB, who conceived this dezinformatsiya campaign — that is,
disinformation campaign — against the United States. The Soviets devoted
exorbitant spending to that cause. “Vietnam,” Andropov told Pacepa, had been
“our most significant success.”
Pacepa read my book and was very pleased to see that I had focused
upon what he judged one of the most significant but underreported and least
understood phenomena of our times: the cynical but remarkable power of
disinformation.
In fact, it turned out that he was writing a book on
precisely that subject and by that very name: Disinformation. He and co-author
Ron Rychlak published the book in 2013 through WND Press, and they asked me to
write the foreword (former CIA director James Woolsey wrote the introduction).
It was a landmark book that everyone ought to read. It will indelibly impact
the way you view history and current affairs.
That groundbreaking book exposed the KGB disinformation
schemes against figures like Pope Pius XII (the smearing of Pius XII as
“Hitler’s Pope” was begun as a mass Soviet disinformation campaign launched by
a Radio Moscow broadcast in 1945) and Cardinals Stepinac and Mindszenty and
Wyszyński, as well as the duplicity of groups like the World Peace Council and
World Council of Churches. The material on the Soviet promulgation of the insidious
Protocols of the Elders of Zion conspiracy is an awakening. The authors
chronicled Andropov’s anti-Zionism campaign, support of Islamic terrorism, and
promotion of virulent anti-Semitism and anti-Americanism among Middle East
Arabs. By 1978, the Soviet bloc planted some 4,000 agents of influence in the
Islamic world, armed with hundreds of thousands of copies of the Protocols of
the Elders of Zion (and military weapons). Militant atheistic communism sought
a handmaiden in militant jihadist Islam, with extremist Muslims exploited by
Soviet manipulators. They promulgated not only acts of terrorism but egregious
acts of “diplomacy” like the infamous UN Resolution 3379 declaring Zionism a
form of racism.
Pacepa revealed how many vicious myths created by communists
have been unwittingly adopted by mainstream historians and journalists. He said
the very handbook on Soviet/communist dezinformatsiya opened with this in
capital letters: “IF YOU ARE GOOD AT DISINFORMATION, YOU CAN GET AWAY WITH
ANYTHING.”
Pacepa would see these patterns in modern American
“journalism,” though it wasn’t always clear if duped American journalists were
wittingly or unwittingly spreading disinformation (or “fake news,” to use a
modern term). Often, they simply believed what they wanted to believe — just as
the Kremlin knew they would.
Beyond Disinformation, Pacepa wrote a number of fascinating
works, including a remarkable 2007 book on the Kennedy assassination, titled
Programmed to Kill: Lee Harvey Oswald, the Soviet KGB, and the Kennedy
Assassination. Pacepa believed that the Soviets were involved in early steps
leading toward or helping to precipitate the assassination. He argued that
Oswald had been recruited by the KGB when he first entered the Soviet Union.
Over the next two years, however, several things complicated the picture. By
1962, once Oswald was settled in Texas, Khrushchev (allegedly) changed his mind
about killing Kennedy. Consequently, claims Pacepa, “the KGB tried to turn
Oswald off.” It was too late.
For the record, this theory of Soviet involvement is
disputed by Kennedy assassination investigators and by the Warren Commission,
but this much we do know: Moscow did its damnedest to direct eyes of suspicion
elsewhere. The Kremlin blamed the Kennedy shooting on (as Pacepa put it)
“racists, the Ku Klux Klan, and Birchists.” Pacepa confirmed that the KGB had a
thorough, ongoing disinformation campaign to blame the Kennedy assassination on
domestic elements in the United States. He reported that on November 26, 1963,
Soviet General Aleksandr Sakharovsky landed unannounced in Bucharest and met
with Pacepa and other high-level members of Romanian intelligence and
leadership. This was his first stop in a “blitz” tour of KGB “sister” services
in the Communist Bloc. “From him,” recalled Pacepa, “we in the DIE [Romanian
intelligence] learned that the KGB had already launched a worldwide
disinformation operation aimed at diverting public attention away from Moscow
in respect to the Kennedy assassination, and at framing the CIA as the culprit.”
Nikita Khrushchev himself, said Sakharovsky, wanted it made clear to the sister
services that “this was by far our first and most important task.” They
circulated rumors that “the CIA was responsible for the crime” and that Lyndon
Johnson and the “military-industrial complex” had been involved.
The effort would be called Operation Dragon. It became, said
Pacepa, one of the most successful disinformation operations in contemporary
history. Pacepa pointed to Hollywood film director Oliver Stone’s 1991 movie,
“JFK,” which blamed the Kennedy assassination on a cabal that included the CIA,
Lyndon Johnson, and the military-industrial complex. It was nominated for eight
Academy Awards.
There are so many intriguing items like this from this
intriguing figure that was Ion Mihai Pacepa. I could go on and on. One more
item of interest to readers here:
The scourge that is Liberation Theology has rotten roots.
Those roots go back not only to twisted Jesuit theologians in Latin America in
the 1970s but, according to Pacepa, to the KGB. Pacepa went so far as to claim
that Liberation Theology was created by the KGB. “The movement was born in the
KGB,” stated Pacepa unequivocally, “and it had a KGB-invented name: Liberation
Theology.” He said that “the birth of Liberation Theology” came from a 1960
“super-secret Party-State Dezinformatsiya [Disinformation] Program” approved by
Aleksandr Shelepin, then-chairman of the KGB, and by Politburo member Aleksey
Kirichenko, who coordinated the Communist Party’s international policies. The
program “demanded that the KGB take secret control of the World Council of
Churches,” which was based in Geneva, and use it “as cover for converting
Liberation Theology into a South American revolutionary tool.”
Again, I could go on. The late Lt. Gen. Pacepa knew a lot.
Ion Mihai Pacepa died on February 14. Fittingly, he passed
away at an undisclosed hospital in an undisclosed location somewhere in the
United States. There was no official announcement.
The loss of Mike Pacepa is a loss for many, especially his
beloved wife and family. It is also a loss for history and contemporary
understanding of certain events. He shared with us gems of information and even
disinformation. Perhaps most helpful of all, he warned us not only about what
to believe but what not to believe.
Dr. Paul Kengor is professor of political science and chief
academic fellow of the Institute for Faith and Freedom at Grove City College.
His latest book (April 2017) is A Pope and a President: John Paul II, Ronald
Reagan, and the Extraordinary Untold Story of the 20th Century. He is also the
author of 11 Principles of a Reagan Conservative. His other books include The
Communist: Frank Marshall Davis, The Untold Story of Barack Obama’s Mentor and
Dupes: How America’s Adversaries Have Manipulated Progressives for a Century.
The Hollywood blacklist is back,
The Hollywood blacklist is back, baby. Actress Gina Carano lost her role this week as a co-star of the Disney+ series “The Mandalorian.” Her crime? Ill-considered social-media posts, including one that compared hatred of conservatives to the persecution of Jews in Nazi Germany. Online mobs had previously targeted her for outré comments on mask wearing, the “preferred pronoun” fad, and fraud in the 2020 election. #FireGinaCarano trended and Lucasfilm Ltd., the Disney subsidiary that produces the “Star Wars” spinoff, predictably obliged. In the now-standard model of scorched-earth personal destruction, the United Talent Agency dumped Ms. Carano as well.
The film and television industry has come a long way on the subject of blacklists. During the McCarthy era, the director Elia Kazan gave the House Un-American Activities Committee the names of show-business colleagues he knew to be members of the Communist Party. Others, who refused to name names, were blacklisted by the studios and denied work.
For decades, the Hollywood bien-pensant viewed the blacklist as an unforgivable stain on the industry. In 1999 some of the biggest stars in the business sat on their hands when Kazan was awarded an honorary Oscar. “Trumbo” director Jay Roach lamented in 2015 that those who’d been blacklisted “were somehow seen as traitors because they had different political views.”
In his review of “Guilty By Suspicion,” a 1991 film about the blacklist starring Robert De Niro, Roger Ebert wrote: “History has vindicated those who refused to betray their principles, but how would any of us have responded at the time—when to defy [HUAC] meant virtual unemployment in show business.
Good question. I’m not defending Gina Carano’s posts, although they are probably defensible. I’m defending the principle. If it’s wrong for someone to lose his job because he’s a Communist, it’s wrong for someone to lose her job because she’s a conservative.
Mr. Hennessey is the Journal’s deputy editorial features editor.
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