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Re: Don't Be a Sucker (1943) [video]

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Post by PeterisP » Mon, Oct 20, 2025, 10:34 AM UTC

mulmen wrote: post #130

swed420 wrote: post #34

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Except for the endorsement of littering, which fit the time period. It would be decades before they wheeled out a crying native american on TV to make people feel guilty about the matter(s).

Littering? Did I miss something?

The "Keep America Beautiful" ad campaign with a Native American character (played by an Italian actor?) who's sad about the polluted environment.

Re: Don't Be a Sucker (1943) [video]

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Post by alsetmusic » Tue, Oct 21, 2025, 12:00 AM UTC

mlrtime wrote: post #137

neilv wrote: post #66

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My wild guess is that most people who are aware of this film recognize that it's a kind of propaganda. Of course you're going to get nationalism-tinged anti-fascist propaganda from the US Dept. of the Army in 1945. There are large voting blocs who need to hear and comprehend the message of this film that happens to be propaganda, right now.

> There are large voting blocs who need to hear and comprehend the message of this film that happens to be propaganda, right now. Can you explain, who are the large (how big is large?) voting blocks that need to comprehend the message in the film?

Sorry to reply to a days old thread, but if you haven't seen the reporting on openly-fascist groups like Patriot Front and openly-nazi groups carrying swastika flags in marches (in the USA for both examples), you're likely only getting a very biased news feed. Or the Terrorgram extremist online group trying to recruit kids on Roblox. Or the openly white-nationalist guys starting "youth clubs" that are like gyms and scouts trying to recruit kids.

I'm plugged into a lot of media that isn't typical USA pablum, so I learn a lot about extremists. But the first two examples get play in mainstream news media and even the others appear on non-fringe (just not mainstream) sources, like the Southern Poverty Law Center and such.

Re: Don't Be a Sucker (1943) [video]

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Post by haritha-j » Wed, Oct 22, 2025, 1:51 PM UTC

like_any_other wrote: post #169

haritha-j wrote: post #125

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Gee it couldn't possibly be because us minorities are made to feel aware of our skin colour everytime we go out in the streets and see someone putting up an English flag, or preach about how their city has too many people that look like us, which means we're hyper aware of our race and it defines our perspective of ourselves. If racism didn't exist, then being asian wouldn't really form an important part of how i thi…

> minorities The UK has a population of 55 million whites. Bangladesh has a population of 171 million, Pakistan has 241 million, India has 1.4 billion, and China also has 1.4 billion. In the UK, there are more Bangladeshi alone than there are whites (all whites, not just British) in Bangladesh, Pakistan, India, and China, combined. Yet they are "minorities", while the people that will soon become outnumbered by forei…

do you then think that a white person in bangladesh will not be more aware of his whiteness than a bangaldeshi in bangladesh? Also im from a counry with a smaller population than the UK.