When fear and paranoia get their hooks into a society, they can invade people’s minds in revealing metaphorical ways. Donald Trump, in his rise to the presidency, stoked fear and hostility toward immigrants, and also churned up racism against African-Americans. As monumental — and hideous — as both those hatreds are, you can argue that there were times when the former issue became a conduit for the latter: anti-immigrant fervor as a code for anti-black racism. There’s no better example of this than the “birther” issue. That was a pure racist fantasy, yet in spreading the canard that Barack Obama was a Muslim born in Kenya, Trump suggested, in effect, that Obama was an “immigrant.” The two corruptions overlapped and dovetailed and, at moments, became one.
An equally horrific psychological bait-and-switch went on during the repressive 1950s. In the opening minutes of “The Lavender Scare,” Josh Howard’s essential and...
An equally horrific psychological bait-and-switch went on during the repressive 1950s. In the opening minutes of “The Lavender Scare,” Josh Howard’s essential and...
- 6/7/2019
- by Owen Gleiberman
- Variety Film + TV
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