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Sep 25, '06 9:49 AM
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This was printed during World War II. But even in that light it is still incredibly offensive, especially when you consider that this is a comic book marketed at children. Imagine what would happen if an Iraqi equivalent was made today.

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subtractadddivide wrote on Sep 25, '06

Apologies for stating the obvious, but they were countries at war... Generally countries weren't as multi-cultural.
Also, no need to imagine, remember that Danish cartoon?

petersealy wrote on Sep 25, '06, edited on Sep 25, '06

All sides' propaganda during World War II was incredibly racist. Likewise World War I (which had jack-booted Germans bayonetting Belgian babies, amongst other things).

I think those wars were much of what soured us on he whole racism thing. (Along with the colonial experience, of course.)

obfuscatedhonesty wrote on Sep 25, '06

Racism is expected in times of war. But I can't believe that there's ever justification for racism when children are the intended audience.

ianbennett wrote on Sep 25, '06

Who was it that said that the first casualty of was is truth? Read any American sci-fi written in the late fifties; 'alien' = 'commie'. (Starship Troopers is an obvious example.)

petersealy wrote on Sep 25, '06, edited on Sep 25, '06

Ah, speciesism, that most insidious of social evils!

But that reminds me of one of my favorite authors - Stanislav Lem, who wtote the most amazing science fiction in Polish under the beady eyes of the Communist censors. Very witty, and translated so well into English you would think that was his native language.

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halfsure wrote on Sep 26, '06

... as was its intention. To rip a page from my own playbook, "One can do anything if mad enough." Taken in context: how does a leadership make its "Christian" people aware that they're about to walk into the home court of a militarist opponent whose troops have the discipline and morality of weasels?

petersealy wrote on Sep 26, '06

I think it is worth pointing out that the Communist scare turned out to have been correct in all essentials: US institutions were infiltrated by Stalinists at all levels. The real lesson of the witch trials and blacklists is that they caught the wrong people, not that there were no people to catch.

A stern lesson for the current administration, which again seems to be catching the wrong people in its "war" on terror.

jinbish wrote on Sep 27, '06

petersealy said

The real lesson of the witch trials and blacklists is that they caught the wrong people, not that there were no people to catch.

So just because they were being paranoid, didn't stop everyone being out to get them!

petersealy wrote on Sep 27, '06

Exactly! The wannabe Jihadists are definitely out to get us. The administrations' cack-handed blundering is only making it worse, not better.

halfsure wrote on Sep 27, '06

petersealy said

the current administration, which again seems to be catching the wrong people in its "war" on terror.

... should offer a slice of free on-air time to any candidate for US office who films a campaign ad in Iraq or another of the non-aligned nations of the Mideast.

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