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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I got my degree in computer science even though that was like my 4th or 5th choice because everybody always said it was a guaranteed well-paying job and my higher choices were all “unrealistic” like astrophysics and history. Now, 8 months after I’ve graduated and so many hundred of applications later I stopped bothering to estimate, I still can’t find a fucking job. My friend might be able to put in a good word for me at a Naval research lab, but working for the US Navy would make me feel like an absolute fucking dog, even if it’s just ocean surveying. Even then, it’s not like I’d expect to get hired.
My loser’s lesson to anybody in college: if you hear a lot about a certain field being a guaranteed job, it’s a fucking lie. Do what you enjoy, it’s the least risky option because there’s no guaranteed jobs, but you can at least make sure you’re struggling on your own terms. That, and your actual degree is not worth the paper it’s printed on. Being in college is just the launchpad to get an internship, get one before you graduate no matter what because nobody’s willing to hire somebody with less than a year of work experience.
The flush of cash injected into tech jobs during covid is drying up so it’s gonna be tough to find an entry level job. Take what you can get and focus on getting some experience because that will improve your chances elsewhere considerably
Believe me, that’s been my mindset for a while now. I’ve been trying to figure out an independent project to work on in the mean time, but I’m having trouble finding something complex enough to be worth doing and easy enough that I can do it.
The huge caveat is that you sorta have to be a sociopath and use people as your gateway to a job. Was talking about this with my buddies the other day, that’s essentially why guys join frats