Wednesday, June 09, 2004

With this kind of attitude, the Americans should
not be surprised that they are treated the way
they currently are around the globe:

Michael Ramirez Editorial Cartoons
(from the Los Angeles Times).

Just cartoons, but cartoons that reveal a lot about the
American character. Racistic, partisan, self-centered,
ignorant, unobjective, egoistic and so on.

Why, for example, the Americans think that people in
whole Europe (and remember how far American troops got
before the German surrender), should be forever grateful
for the role the US played in the World War II´s European
theater of war? The Russians are not whining all the time
that their role is not appreciated. The American
soldiers would have been slaughtered in France if the
German war machine wouldn´t have broken down in the
plains of Ukraine. I don´t think that the average
American feels that he/she should be grateful for Russia
and Russians for this.

And the cartoons about Palestine... Making victims
guilty for their own suffering. Now that would be
something that Göbbels would have appreciated. You
may say that one should not take mere cartoons
seriously, but in cartoons the worst cliches and
stereotypes can be combined to produce effective
propaganda for aggression and oppression. And during
World War II (and before it), cartoons where put to
this kind of use. The average Joe may not read
editorials from the Los Angeles Times or Voelkische
Beobachter, but he will certainly see the cartoons
and comics.

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