These were racist imagery from Nazi Germany, circa 1930s. Look familiar?
Subscribe to:
Post Comments (Atom)
If the shoe fits, wear it: "... in the modern world the stupid are cocksure while the intelligent are full of doubt." -- Bertrand Russell
"There's no firewall for stupidity." -- Mike Hamilton
"I won't insult your intelligence by suggesting that you really believe what you just said." -- William F. Buckley, Jr.
"There are two ways to be fooled. One is to believe what isn't true; the other is to refuse to believe what is true." -- Søren Kierkegaard
3 comments:
Larry check out what I posted here "Are the Tea Partiers Racist?" on Monday, April 5, 2010. I think we're pretty much on the same drift in regards to the racist TEA'ers. If TEA'ers truly aren't racist then they'd kick those sign holders to the curb, since the sign holders are giving them a really bad name!
Agreed, sparkle, that all those who've stood shoulder to shoulder at rallies w/ racist sign holders are accepting and tolerating that message. An unfortunate fact of our post civil rights era is that because many aspects of discrimination are illegal, racism has become more covert, and people who've never lived on the receiving end of racial discrimination are mostly unaware of it. Some will even say that it doesn't exist anymore, except maybe against whites, males in particular (boo hoo!). I've been a supporter of the Southern Poverty Law Center for some time, and they've been monitoring the dramatic rise in white supremacist/militia type groups since Obama was elected. I'm sure there could be some cross-pollinating between these groups and the tea pottiers.
Interesting to see the Entarte Musik poster because I have a video entitled "Entarte Kunst" (means "Degenerate Art" in German) that details the infamous art show of the same name that derided and ridiculed many prominent artists of that time. Some artists were driven out of Germany, some committed suicide, careers were damaged and destroyed. The Nazis confiscated many pieces of Abstract Expressionist artworks (and any other works deemed less than "good art" according to former art student Adolf Hitler), which they sold at auctions in Switzerland to finance their war. I've shown this to my Painting students, who are generally surprised to learn that artists were ever the object of this kind of prejudice and persecution.
Winer,
My mother was born in Germany in 1926, they immigrated to the US in '27 and remained here for about six years, immigrant's did not do well in the states during the depression. They returned to Germany in the mid-thirties. Her teenage years were spent living amongst the atrocities of the Nazi regime. My grandfather was a POW of the British for a number of years, and my mother and hers, with two young brothers moved from town to town to avoid the Russians, with many near misses under their belt.
Her Uncle, a Catholic priest was incarcerated in a concentration camp for some years. Released only to die in a bombing of a church.
It almost brings tears to her eyes when she sees depictions of our president with a Hitler mustache. She renounced all things German, refused to speak the language, never taught it to us, she met my father during the occupation, and moved here at the age of 22. it took her over 30 years to be willing to revisit the country of her birth.
You are so right when you say they have no idea!
Post a Comment