They frequently reference the Hollywood blacklisting of the 1950's because, let's face it, they don't have anything else; you'd think it happened last month in stead of almost 70 years ago. This allows them to feel persecuted without actually experiencing any persecution, and brave without ever having to do anything to prove it. They are far more likely to display the exact opposite of courage, especially when dealing with the brutal totalitarian regime of China, because- in most cases- principles come to a screeching halt at the Chinese box office. This obsequious appeasement of, and capitulation to, communist China is almost too ironic, given Hollywood's obsessive preoccupation with McCarthyism.
The latest example of this ghastly pandering was perpetrated by alleged actor John Cena, star of Fast And Furious... 9? 14? 36? (I've never seen any, but there appear to be a lot of them). While giving an interview, he committed the unpardonable sin of referring to the country of Taiwan as a country, something which, along with human rights, freedom, and democracy, the CCP refuses to accept is a thing. Fast and furiously, Universal Studios frog-marched Cena in front of a camera to issue a grovelling apology - in Mandarin, no less- as an offering of appeasement to their one true god: the Chinese Yuan.
To be fair, there are some outliers: Quentin Tarantino for example, when faced with demands from China that he remove parts of his Once Upon A Time In Hollywood to meet with their approval, told the CCP to go pound sand. And, miraculously, Sony backed him up... maybe they were more intimidated by Tarantino than by the Chinese government. It was a costly decision, as China then banned the film, but at the end of the day they maintained some dignity and self-respect, unlike cowardly John Cena and Universal.
Hollywood likes to believe that during World War II they would have been Malta. But the sad fact is, they'd have been Vichy.