I’ve been reading about the Hollywood Blacklist lately and one striking thing about it is that it never would have happened had the studios just told HUAC to go screw but instead the pre-emptively capitulated and it just got worse and worse. See also: how WWII started
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Matt Ortega
Why? Why post this? Why is the first inclination not to fight but accommodate?
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This coercion factors into a couple great books I read on the era:
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Victor Navsky's "Naming Names"