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Monday, December 13, 2010
Appalling American Propadanda Video, With Donald Duck
I laughed at first, but it becomes increasingly racist and disturbing. Still, an interesting piece of history...Donald Duck? Really? Plus, the song is catchy. But then so is syphillis.
Err, am I just deeply insensitive to racism? Apart from the images of Hiro Hito, at the beginning, which could be considered to be linked to anti-Japanese racism I only saw justified political insults of the Nazi system. It ends with some flag waving American patriotism , but where's the harm in that, certainly in the context of suggesting to Americans that they had something better than Nazi totalitarianism? Oddly enough, though I posted a couple of irritable comments a while back suggesting the blog was going a bit too far in mocking Europeans as degenerate socialists, I see nothing wrong with the kind of American patriotism promoted in the cartoon.
You might note that it's from 1943 - maybe you didn't notice world war two ( I hear it was in all the papers). I don't see racism, but anti-japanese and anti-nazi caricture which would be appropriate for the time period. The ersatz bread and slave labor were interesting touches.
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Err, am I just deeply insensitive to racism? Apart from the images of Hiro Hito, at the beginning, which could be considered to be linked to anti-Japanese racism I only saw justified political insults of the Nazi system. It ends with some flag waving American patriotism , but where's the harm in that, certainly in the context of suggesting to Americans that they had something better than Nazi totalitarianism? Oddly enough, though I posted a couple of irritable comments a while back suggesting the blog was going a bit too far in mocking Europeans as degenerate socialists, I see nothing wrong with the kind of American patriotism promoted in the cartoon.
jeez, B! there's just no pleasing some folks!
You might note that it's from 1943 - maybe you didn't notice world war two ( I hear it was in all the papers). I don't see racism, but anti-japanese and anti-nazi caricture which would be appropriate for the time period. The ersatz bread and slave labor were interesting touches.
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