Sunday, October 16, 2005
 
Why Do We Hate Them?
The street is, in fact, rising up and attacking popular propoganda's convenient targets: neo-Nazis:
    A crowd protesting a white supremacists' march Saturday turned violent, throwing baseball-sized rocks at police, vandalizing vehicles and stores, and setting fire to a neighborhood bar, authorities said.

    When Mayor Jack Ford and a local minister tried to calm the rioting, they were cursed for allowing the march, and Ford said a masked gang member threatened to shoot him.

    At least 65 people were arrested and several police officers were injured before calm was restored about four hours later.

    Ford blamed the rioting on gangs taking advantage of a volatile situation. He declared a state of emergency, set an 8 p.m. curfew through the weekend, and asked the Highway Patrol for help.
Funny, but isn't this the reason why Hollywood changes villains in movies from actual threats in today's world--such as radical Islamists (think The Sum of All Fears)--to Nazis? Because the better-minded amongst us don't want hooligans and vigilantes to attack the people depicted in the movie as unrepentant evil?

Well, I guess Hollywood might be right about its impact on popular sensitivities, and it can rest assured that the themes it espouses don't deal with contemporary evils, but instead continue to dish propoganda which demonizes a movement which has caused sporadic violence but which was last a credible global threat sixty years ago.


- posted by Brian J. @ 3:51 PM
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