Anti-communism functionally replaced anti-Semitism in postwar America.
Evidence
The decline in anti-Semitism in the United States did not, therefore, give any comfort to the people at Berkeley or to Adornoall the less so since a substitute had long ago been found: anti-communism. — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School, 446
Categorization
- XREF: Links to the observed pattern that manufactured external enemies alternately take domestic and foreign forms (Strangers in the Land) — hostility re-targets rather than disappears. — connects to: Anti-communism replaced anti-Semitism as America’s acceptable prejudice outlet. — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 1812; Anti-communism replaced anti-Semitism as the object of displaced aggression. — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 1812
- yield-rescued: below the book’s yield-target cutoff, included anyway for connecting to: Anti-communism replaced anti-Semitism as America’s acceptable prejudice outlet. — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 1812; Anti-communism replaced anti-Semitism as the object of displaced aggression. — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 1812
Broader Connections
- Anti-communism replaced anti-Semitism as America’s acceptable prejudice outlet.
#corroborates(0.98) — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School, 1812