The Palmer Raids were a series of raids conducted in November 1919 and January 1920 by the United States Department of Justice under the administration of President Woodrow Wilson to capture and arrest suspected socialists, especially anarchists and communists, and deport them from the United States. The raids particularly targeted Italian immigrants and Eastern European Jewish immigrants with alleged leftist ties, with particular focus on Italian anarchists and immigrant leftist labor activists. The raids and arrests occurred under the leadership of Attorney General A. Mitchell Palmer, with 6,000 people arrested across 36 cities. Though 556 foreign citizens were deported, including a number of prominent leftist leaders, Palmer's efforts were largely frustrated by officials at the U.S. Department of Labor, which had authority for deportations and objected to Palmer's methods.
The Palmer Raids occurred in the larger context of the First Red Scare, a period of fear of and reaction against communists in the U.S. in the years immediately following World War I and the Russian Revolution. There were strikes that garnered national attention, and prompted race riots in more than 30 cities, as well as two sets of bombings in April and June 1919, including one bomb mailed to Palmer's home.
Between November 1919 and January 2020, Palmer’s agents deported nearly 250 people, including notable anarchist Emma Goldman, and arrested nearly 10,000 people in seventy cities.
100 Years Ago, the First Red Scare Tried to Destroy the Left
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at that point in the creative process where my worldbuilding has become utterly bloated but I've become extremely attached to it so I have to choose between scrapping it and using my experience to create a new, better setting or the 'fuck it we ball' approach
Always “fuck it we ball” when writing. That’s my opinion.
If we were chasing only perfection we would never finish anything. Besides, you can improve it while tinkering with it and using it. Cutting off bloat might feel like a Sisyphean task but if it’s a matter of just picking the one or two things that actually fit with a story concept you have, it might be easier? Idk, it’s been too long since I last worldbuilded.
Sometimes I find the systems that I like within my large old thing, and keep them as floating bits for new settings.
Be thankful because the alternative that I'm experiencing is that my world is dry, the plot is grievously disconnected from the climax+conclusion, and I have a dozen threads that I don't ever intend to address.
dialogue is too hard, i'd honestly just write up the history of this mostly irrelevant micronation instead
For me it's like I'd rather just write characters and a world then imagine the scenario in which the characters are to interact with the world naturally, AKA the fucking plot
You can always revise as much as you want. Tolkien's change log and commit list are pretty wild, and afaik he never stopped tinkering with LOTR. All because he wanted to make up some languages and needed a world for them to be spoken in!