Indiana Textbook Commission member charges that Robin Hood is communist - HISTORY
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In an example of the lengths to which the “Red Scare” in America is going, Mrs. Thomas J. White of the Indiana Textbook Commission calls for the
  • godfather_ghost_pep [any]
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    3 years ago

    This is about something from 1953 but legit Indiana just passed fascistic education laws :marx-joker:

  • CommCat [none/use name]
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    3 years ago

    they did have a point:

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Adventures_of_Robin_Hood_(TV_series)#Production_details

    The Adventures of Robin Hood was produced by Hannah Weinstein, who had left-wing political views. The series was explicitly created by Weinstein to enable the commissioning of scripts by blacklisted American writers.[10] Among these were Ring Lardner Jr., Waldo Salt, Robert Lees, and Adrian Scott. Howard Koch, who was also blacklisted, served for a while as the series' script editor. The blacklisted writers were credited under pseudonyms, to avoid the attention of studio executives.