We continue our discussion of Red Scare’s turn into a real red scare platform. We have been doing deconstruction of their rhetoric on Twitter the past week, which has been going viral and has been drawing all the nastiness and poison of the Red Scare universe to the surface for everyone to see. And we’ve come to a very grim conclusion about the nature of this podcast project, and it’s this: What Red Scare promotes as “good” politics is captured by The Zone of Interest — where the happy family of the commander of Auschwitz lives on the other side of the wall from the death camp surrounded by sounds of suffering and not caring. They see themselves as good people. These are the morals that the Red Scare women want to push on people. To them the only thing that makes you a “good” person is treating your family and friends right. That’s it. The pain and suffering of other people doesn’t matter. In fact, it doesn’t even exist. And if you care about anyone outside your little world, you’re fake and manipulative and just projecting your own mental issues onto the world.

Our world is already a series of Zones of Interest. But what Red Scare tries to do is to sell this kind of cynical tribalism as something cool and avant-garde. They’ve become agents of nihilism.

We want to draw the line in the sand and call it what it is, and to remind young (and not so young) people that there is a black and white and good and bad in cases like this. Not everything is gray.

—Evgenia

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