#333: You Thought You Knew The Little Tramp

The golden age of Hollywood may be long gone (sorry Tom, but please keep launching yourself off of motorbikes and into space) but a lot of what went down during Hollywood’s heyday might prove to be just as relevant today.

Hollywood’s golden age coincided with the Red Scare, a period of strong anti-communist sentiment in the United States during the late 1940s and early 1950s. It’s not much of an exaggeration to suggest that during this period, all you had to do was point and someone you didn’t like or agree with, call them a “pinko commie”, and let the fear-mongering do the rest.

Sound familiar?

These people didn’t even have the internet in their hate arsenal.