On this day, January 12, in 1946 Frankie Fay, a fascist asshole who had been the “first stand-up” held a rally of 10,000 fellow fascist asssholes.
And this AFTER the truth of what the Nazis had done was out there….
“… Actor’s Equity stood by Brooks, Darling, Malina and Osato. Rather than expel them from his union, Lytell censured Frank Fay for “conduct prejudicial to the association or its membership.”
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In response to the censure, allies of Franco, members of the Ku Klux Klan and the American Nazi party organized a rally at Madison Square Garden in January 1946 called “The Friends of Frank Fay.” Speakers included Klan ally Joseph Scott, Nazi Laura Ingalls, publisher of anti-Semitic pamphlets John Geis, and the prolific Joseph P. Kamp, who had used the KKK’s mailing list to distribute his work about “Jewish influence” and America’s “Communist President” Franklin D. Roosevelt.
observationalepidemiology.blogspot.com/2015/11/the-friends-of-frank-fay.html
Atmospheric carbon dioxide levels were at 310parts per million.
As of 2026 they are 428ppm at and rising rapidly. Enjoy yourself, it’s later than you think.
Btw, the point(s) of this project is …. the how, the who the hell am I and the what do I currently believe?
The context was that the truth of the extermination camps and the industrialised murder of millions of Jewish people, Roma, and other “undesirables” was kinda hard to ignore in 1946. But never underestimate the fash, I guess.
Why care?
This stuff matters! We need to remember that there is nothing that cannot be denied/ignored/minimised if it gets between you and your a) money and b) sense of yourself as a Good Person.
(How) does it connect to climate change?
See above.
What happened next
The white supremacists took a series of defeats through the 50s-70s, but have come roaring back.
Fay died, unlamented, in 1961.
How does it help us understand the world?
That evil never goes away. It can be contained, on a good day.
How does it help us act in the world?
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The source that it comes from, if necessary,
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The other things that you could read about this or watch
There’s a Kurt Vonnegut novel I should read again, about 1930s White Supremacists…
What do you think?
If you have opinions or info about this, or other things that happened on this day that are worth knowing, let me know!
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