Do you think this type of motivationial cartoons of WW2 would be helpful or be harmful this day in age?

Question

*******I'm putting up this question again because i'd really like to get some imput on this.******

THis is a link to a YOUTUBE.COM of a banned Donald Duck cartoon called "The spirit of 43" It is propganda to get you to be involved in the war, and sticking up for america.
Sure it seems a bit silly but I think to myself .. Was it better then to be sorta wool over our eyes, but generally doing the right thing?

Or Better now, that there is so much more name calling and fighting in the white house.

Basically.. was it really so bad to have a bit of "Go team" ?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3umtnic5r...

As they say a house divided cannot stand and that is what it feels like now.

Please share your thoughts and not idiotic smart alec comments please

Answer 1

I don't think it pulled the wool over peoples eyes..I think it was pride in America, and unified support for your country. Back then, people were Americans first, Democrats or Republicans second...and I think we could really stand to get back to that.

Answer 2

The posters are hardly necessary. Sean Hannity and folks are living version of the old WW 2 Rah Rah posters. Hannity and Oliver North are out there mixing up trying to keep the righteous right wing fire burning in support of the administration and of the war that so many of us know is completely wrong for the region and wrong for American interests.

A patriotic poster won't change the reality. In WW 2, the posters rallied an entire nation together to face the threats of German, Italian, and Japanese fascism.

The Iraqis just want us to go home. What kind of poster is going to motivate Americans to keep raiding the private homes of Iraqi citizens in the middle of the night...what poster is going to keep Americans motivated to torture Iraqi prisoners...or keep running the IED gauntlets day in and day out.

Would a patriotic poster motivate any of us when the stark reality doen't justify such patriotism??

And really, if this war merited that sort of patriotism then it would be justifiable for the Congress to declare war and to draft every available American to bring it to a speedy and successful conclusion...but of course it doesn't.

Answer 3

Actually... the funny thing is... WWII was a very heated discussion on the home front, much like the Iraq and Vietnam war are/were... Republicans didn't like the idea of invading someone that didn't attack us first and were very critical of FDR's actions...

of course eventually the war ended and it's all been forgotten now... but there is a reason that propaganda was made...

Answer 4

If sincerely, I think not this kind of problem presents the true problem of USA, also when we talk about USA influence in the world. Not money, but problematic understanding of things, values. Money tends to multiply, but it will not go for bad easily if it will be understood as such. I would like to illustrate with this exerpt:

"In the USA negative eugenics was effected by two major types of legislation: involuntary sterilisation laws and the Immigration Restriction Act of 1924. The first state sterilisation law was enacted in 1907 in Indianna.(...) In 1931, thirty states had enacted compulsory eugenic sterilisation laws, and in 1937, 32 states had such laws. Most of these laws were not rigidly enforced, but by 1935, 20,000 people had been forcefully sterilised, nearly half in California. (...)

The Immigration Restriction Act was specifically designed to decrease the proportion of poor immigrants from southern and eastern Europe (immigration from Asia had been curtailed earlier) by setting the quotas to the optimum year, 1890 (Ludmerer 1978). Part of the argument was that they thought that these people were inferior, and also that these countries did not enforce eugenic control, so the nation's biological strength would be weakened. (...)

The idea of eugenics in Germany was called Racial Hygiene, and was founded by Alfred Plotz in 1895 (Hubbard 1986). He was the founder of the leading German Eugenics journal, and a central figure in the movement from 1900 to 1920's. (...) The anti-semitism and eugenics programs were supported both by Hitler and some right-wing doctors and eugenics supporters (Kater 1987).

The European laws were modelled and inspired from the American sterilisation laws. The German sterilisation program was based on a law passed in 1933, at a similar time to many other European countries, which were modelled and inspired from the American laws. Earlier, some Germans had criticised the backwardness of German Law compared to the USA in passing eugenic sterilization laws (Lifton 1986). The German law on the "Prevention of Hereditary Diseases in Future Generations" played a very important part in the health and population policy, and was subsequently connected with the mass murder of Jews, Slavs and other groups up to the end of the war. The legislation that the Nazis promulgated in July 1933 had been developed in earlier years under the lobbying of Wiemar, and sterilisation had been widely recommended by the end of World War I.

The German sterilisation law went beyond the American laws in that it applied to all persons institutionalised or not, who suffered from disabilities (Kevles 1985). The doctors were called to identify candidates for sterilisation. In America however, some people were brought specifically into institutions so that they could undergo sterilisation, then they were released. The Americans were critical of their government for not implementing the eugenics program as thoroughly as the Nazis. Though it is unlikely that the Nazi program, that began in 1934 resulted in an increased number of sterilisations being performed in the USA (Reilly 1987). In 1937 the secretary of the American Eugenics Society, Frederick Osborn, remarked that "the German sterilisation program is apparently an excellent one". There was similar ideology and much collaboration between the two programs. There were many Americans supportive of the German laws, some calling them model (Mehler 1987). Ninety percent of the American biology texts from 1914 to 1949 discussed eugenics, many commenting favourably on the German program. The Journal of the American Medical Association frequently published detailed accounts of the Nazi program in a weekly section called "Foreign Letters". "

http://www.csu.edu.au/learning/eubios/SG12.html