Don't be a sucker 1947

[siligut]

Run time: 17:25 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=23X14HS4gLk   Posted on YouTube: September 29, 2007 By YouTube Member: weirdovideos Views on YouTube: 70357   Posted on DU: February 12, 2011 By DU Member: siligut Views on DU: 463

 
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=23X14HS4gLk

This really needs to be posted over at freeperville. From the comments on Youtube: "Change the people in the crowd to Muslim, gay, illegal immigrants and you have Tea Party as the Nazi recruiters. Scary, isn't it?"

"Homosexuals, illegal immigrants, Muslims, terrorists, republicans, democrats... these are the new scapegoats -- this is the new divisive propaganda."

This is a comment from the Prelinger Archives, where I first saw the video: "Excellent film produced by the War Dept. presumably for viewing by the armed forces just after the end of WW II warning about bigotry
and using the history of Nazi Germany as the object lesson for what can happen if prejudice is left unchecked. I suspect this kind of film would have excited Joe McCarthy's suspicions---perhaps it did. What's sad is the realization that many of the Tea Partiers of today and other right-wing extremists would probably find this film to be dangerous and subversive--witness their common references to our "Kenyen" president..."

There are plenty of other comments, some that disagree with the message: http://www.archive.org/details/DontBeaS1947

[yurbud]

1. I wish I could rec this a thousand times.