Courtesy of Business Insider:1947 anti-fascist video made by US military to teach citizens how to avoid falling for people like Trump is relevant again. http://pic.twitter.com/vkTDD1Tplh
— Michael (@OmanReagan) August 13, 2017
A short, anti-Nazi film titled "Don't Be A Sucker" has reemerged after this past weekend's deadly white-supremacist rallies in Charlottesville, Virginia.
Produced by the US War Department in 1943 and released two years after the end of World War II, the film was a warning to Americans to resist fascist rhetoric — and to condemn it even if you're not among those directly under attack.
The film opens with an agitated man handing out pamphlets and yelling to a crowd from a podium about the threat posed to "real Americans" by black people, "foreigners," Catholics, and Freemasons. "I see foreigners with money," the man shouts.
"I see negroes holding jobs that belong to me and you. Now I ask you, if we allow this thing to go on, what's going to become of us real Americans?
"The clip was posted to Twitter on Saturday night by an anthropologist named Michael Oman-Reagan, who said the post-World War II film was made "to teach citizens how to avoid falling for people like Trump." It had been retweeted more than 122,000 times by Monday morning.
And now I am sharing it with you here, and I encourage you to share it far and wide as well.
The fact that it feels as if this film could have been made last year as a warning about what a Trump presidency might do to the country, is all the more reason that as many people as possible should see it now.
You can find the entire film here.
Remember, a well informed public is exactly what those who push this kind of agenda DON'T want in this country.
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