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A White Supremacist Under Every Bes
Marginal Revolution ^ | 9/24/22 | Alex Tabarrok

Posted on 09/24/2022 6:19:53 AM PDT by untenured

The Red Scare (1947-57) was a decade-long period of intense anti-communist paranoia in the United States. During this period, millions of ordinary Americans were paralysed by an irrational fear of ‘Reds under the bed’ – the belief that thousands of communist agents and sympathisers were secretly living amongst them, plotting or waiting to overthrow the government.

Today, we live under the White Supremacist Scare, the irrational fear that there is a white supremacist under every bed. An email sent to the parents of University of Virginia students, for example, warns that “events have occurred on Grounds that have been cause for concern” and “the nature and timing of these events have caused some to speculate that they are linked or part of a larger pattern of racially motivated crimes…”. Here is one such event:

Last weekend, several community members reported that a flag bearing a symbol that looked either like a crown or an owl, depending on how the flag is held, was left on the grass near the Memorial to Enslaved Laborers. That same person also left a check for $888.88 that was ultimately delivered, as a surprise, to a student’s room, and the check had the same symbol that was on the flag. As rumors swirled around this bizarre set of events, some speculated that the flag represented a white supremacist organization and that the check was somehow a targeted act of intimidation against a student of color.

A crown! An owl! A check for $888.88! Heil Hitler! It seems odd that giving a check to someone is “targeting” a person of color. But no matter. Logic isn’t important here. What else could this mean but white supremacy? Bear in mind that this is a university where streaking the lawn is a tradition and there are weird numbers, signs, and sigils all over campus.

The UVA police and the FBI—yes, the FBI!—were called in to investigate (n.b. there isn’t even a hint of any crime!). And they got the culprit! Of course, what they discovered was entirely banal. Does it even matter?

“…we discovered that he is part of an organization focusing on micro-philanthropy that occasionally engages in random acts of kindness to current students.”

Moreover, the UVA administration is advertising their investigation, as if how seriously they took this potential threat is a credit to the organization instead of an embarrassment of poor judgment and fevered imagination.


TOPICS: Culture/Society; News/Current Events; US: Virginia
KEYWORDS: bes; whitesupremacists
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1 posted on 09/24/2022 6:19:53 AM PDT by untenured
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To: untenured

The fascist commies have taken over the Federal Administrative State, the ‘Rat Party and the Enemedia.


2 posted on 09/24/2022 6:22:15 AM PDT by Paladin2
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To: Paladin2

And Academia.


3 posted on 09/24/2022 6:23:44 AM PDT by Paladin2
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To: untenured
The problem with this analogy is there were thousands of communist plotting the overthrow of the United States.

They had children, and took over the Universities, teachers colleges, the dominant media, and many big city governments.

They have installed the Biden administration in power and now push a "woke" agenda.

4 posted on 09/24/2022 6:24:20 AM PDT by marktwain
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To: Paladin2

The Red Recognition (1947-57)
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was a decade-long period of intense anti-communist infiltration acknowledgment in the United States.
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During this period, millions of ordinary Americans were paralysed by a valid recognition of ‘Reds under the bed’ – ..
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the knowledge..
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.. that thousands of communist agents and sympathisers were secretly living amongst them, plotting or waiting to overthrow the government ...
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in exactly the ways their Communist publications openly stated they would.

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They were , there was, they did.

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5 posted on 09/24/2022 6:28:38 AM PDT by cuz1961 (USCGR Veteran )
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To: untenured

All of America’s current woes can be traced back to the Kenyan in the fuel supply (W.C. Fields term).


6 posted on 09/24/2022 6:40:12 AM PDT by hardspunned (former GOP globalist stooge)
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To: untenured
Whoever wrote this article apparently flunked US History: The government was well infested with Soviet agents and so was Hollywood - as proven by both Soviet records and the Venona intercepts.

The Communist Party USA was actively and preeminently involved in the organization, direction, coordination and support of the "Antiwar" (pro-enemy) movement to undermine the troops in Vietnam and support an enemy victory.

The "Red Scare" was real enough.

7 posted on 09/24/2022 6:44:50 AM PDT by Chainmail (Harrassment, to be effective, must be continuous.)
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To: untenured

Better dead than MAGA red? Is that the trend? The “white menace”?


8 posted on 09/24/2022 6:45:32 AM PDT by rktman (Destroy America from within? Check! WTH? Enlisted USN 1967 to end up with this? 😕)
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To: untenured
Your Help Needed
9 posted on 09/24/2022 6:45:43 AM PDT by deport
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To: untenured

So, how long before we have to wear a star on our clothes?


10 posted on 09/24/2022 6:46:43 AM PDT by Little Ray (Civilization runs on a narrow margin. What sustains it is not magic, but hard work. )
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To: untenured

“The Red Scare (1947-57) was a decade-long period of intense anti-communist paranoia in the United States. “

Like the communists weren’t really trying to destroy America with the help of Hollywood and the red diaper babies in NYC?


11 posted on 09/24/2022 6:53:16 AM PDT by dljordan
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To: untenured

Not to detract from the author’s message but 1947 to 1957 is only one decade, not decades long.


12 posted on 09/24/2022 7:01:40 AM PDT by Lion Den Dan ( )
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To: untenured
They weren't under the bed, they were in the State Department and everywhere else. FDR's administration was infested with them, as we now know from the research of the KGB files by Evans and Romerstein. Read "Stalin's Secret Agents". Also American Betrayal by Diana West. And "Dupes" by Paul Kengor.

The tools we used out of dire necessity to defend our Constitution against them have been taken over and are now being used against honest, patriotic Americans.

13 posted on 09/24/2022 7:32:32 AM PDT by Chad C. Mulligan
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There is no supremacist scare.

There is a racist Black propaganda blitz to take up where the Black hoax Black Lives Matter petered out.

Black racist culture is the enemy of America and must be recognized as such. The effort must be constantly labeled as Black propaganda


14 posted on 09/24/2022 7:36:19 AM PDT by bert ( (KWE. NP. N.C. +12) Juneteenth is inequality day)
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They warned us before the Patriot Act was passed.

Mea culpa - shoulda listened.


15 posted on 09/24/2022 7:37:41 AM PDT by skeeter
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To: untenured

Bkmk


16 posted on 09/24/2022 7:43:31 AM PDT by sauropod (Unbelief has nothing to say. Chance favors the prepared mind.)
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To: untenured
White supremacy is the bête noire--or rather the bête blanche--that the totalitarian, Nazi Democrats hope will scare the American People into ignoring the Democrats' version of Hitler's Reichstag fire.

"Accuse the other side of what you're doing."
Hermann Goering

17 posted on 09/24/2022 8:05:03 AM PDT by Savage Beast (Americans DESPISE the corrupt elites, their media toadies and their corruption of the US government!)
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To: hardspunned

“All of America’s current woes can be traced back to the Kenyan”

What we are seeing can be traced back over a hundred years.


18 posted on 09/24/2022 8:49:32 AM PDT by TexasGator ( Gator in Florida)
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To: Paladin2

Any old timers out there may be receiving their “Medicare 2023” brochure any day now.

There are eight individuals on the cover of the brochure.

How many are white men?

You know the answer.

They want us dead.


19 posted on 09/24/2022 8:52:22 AM PDT by cgbg (Claiming that laws and regs that limit “hate speech” stop freedom of speech is “hate speech”.)
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To: cgbg

“Any old timers out there may be receiving their “Medicare 2023” brochure any day now.

There are eight individuals on the cover of the brochure.

How many are white men?”

Just looked at the one I got a few days ago, you are correct.


20 posted on 09/24/2022 8:55:48 AM PDT by nomorelurker
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