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🗓️ 7 December 2023
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0:00.0 | overrode Harry Truman's veto to be enacted, prevented communists from leading trade unions. |
0:07.0 | And you had, yeah, in Hollywood in the 1940s is really when the blacklist kind of started. |
0:15.6 | Because who I love that name, by the way, whoack, that acronym. |
0:18.9 | Quack. |
0:19.7 | Yeah. |
0:20.6 | Stop whacking off in my trailer. |
0:23.9 | Beaves and butt head. |
0:27.3 | But quack in 1947, it's subpoenas, what's called the Hollywood Ten, which are mostly writers who are communists, even Humphrey Bogart, who's a liberal at the time |
0:41.8 | against what's at that time kind of proto-McCarthianism. |
0:45.7 | Even he is like, I can't stick by these guys because they refuse to repent their communist |
0:50.9 | views. |
0:52.4 | But they have kind of fortune is somewhat in their favor because Huac was run by such |
0:58.9 | clowns that they can't actually make anything happen here. |
1:03.5 | It's like, I mean, it's kind of similar to like the Freedom Caucus and the Tea Party and |
1:07.0 | some of these guys. |
1:07.7 | Like there, they're actually are idiots who are not good at governing. |
1:11.6 | So it takes them several years to have another hearing on American entertainment. |
1:18.4 | And that's when the blacklist really begins is when McCarthy is in Washington. |
1:24.6 | And Ilya Kazan, it should be noted, at first refuses to testify. He's he's grilled in 1951 and he says, no, I'm not going to do it. Some, somewhere the worm turns. |
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