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no_hypocrisy

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35. The Communist Control Act made it possible to persecute individuals

Reply to Diraven (Reply #30)

Fri Jun 27, 2025, 07:46 AM

Jun 2025

who were no longer communists. Philip Loeb lost his job from The Goldbergs due to persistent attacks on his past which wasn't per se communist, just advocating for fair labor, equal rights, anti-racism, etc. He later took his life due to inability to find work in film or the theater.

The FBI showed up at my uncle's house in rural NJ in the Fifties and interrogated him for more than three hours because he belonged to a cell in Pittsburgh decades before.

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