The green scare is weaker than the red scare and needs constant media reinforcement

Evidence

From this analysis it can be discerned that the McCarthyism of the twenty-first century isn’t the product of just one individual: it is the collective effort of right-wingers in the academy, the think-tank milieu, the political sphere, and the security establishment. But the green scare, just like its twentieth-century counterpart, is supported and endorsed by liberals in every sphere who share with conservatives a common commitment to US imperialism. It is, however, worth noting that Islamophobia is less potent as an agent of fear than its red counterpart. During the Cold War, the Soviet Union was indisputably a powerful nuclear armed threat to the United States. The same cannot be said of radical Islamist groups, as even members of the security establishment freely admit. The “green scare” can be effective only up to a point; it must constantly be rehashed in public memory through media spectacles in order to keep the fear alive. Both conservatives and liberals participate in these efforts. — Deepa Kumar, Islamophobia and the Politics of Empire, 573

Categorization

• XREF: Connects to the reader’s framework linking domestic fear to imperial projects — here Kumar names the shared US-imperialism commitment across party lines, echoing Grosfoguel/Rana’s analysis of racialized fear serving empire. — connects to: Counterinsurgency techniques move between the red scare and the green scare unchanged — Deepa Kumar, Islamophobia and the Politics of…, 631; New media expose more climate science while shrinking comprehension needed to act on it. — Rob Nixon, Slow Violence and the Environmentalism…, 844