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Originally Posted by Kpt. Kozloff
My point is that propaganda in this case went too far.
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I'm not Big Brother, I'm not here to "patronize" you, judge you or question you.
I'm not an Alien either. I also know the effects of indoctrination. I grew up as an indoctrinated child, repeating the mantras instilled by the educational system. My teachers followed the method of a Marxist who proclaimed that children should be taught politics at an early age while their minds were still not capable of offering resistance. Stealing candy from a kid. Unfortunately for them, while they could make me believe in lies, they could not touch my mind. They could fool me, but they never managed to take away my love for the truth.
My point is not to question your opinion. You can think whatever you want and find the lowest point of the universe. The fact is anti-nazism propaganda ended with the end of WW2. It was a reaction, not a long-term pre-planned project to create a new society. It's war, it's hell, it's sad and it's not for kids, but it wasn't Donald Duck who started it.
The fact is that at this date Nazism was seducing many American intellectuals and even "celebrities", together with Eugenics and other forms of social engineering. It may have reached kids aswell: "Daddy, if the Nazism state is the best why don't we become Nazis?", "Mommy, I'm a Nazi because Mr. Garrison said they're the best". With the context in mind, there is no alternative, you either fight and resist or you perish. What is sad is the perishing of the German people, their fall for Nazism. What would be sad is the falling of the American people to Nazism. We resisted it and we are to blame for resisting it?
Either way, as the two posters above me, I'm not sure that these cartoons are only meant for kids or even meant at them. My grandfathers weren't WW2 heroes, but they watched alot of cartoons. At the date of this cartoon, television didn't existed, so it could only be watched at the theatres. Did Americans forced their children to the theatres? Did Americans created the Donald Ducklerist Youth? Did we gave them military training? If this cartoon is taking things too far, how far is the Hitlerist Youth?