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> There was no shortage of ignorance, bigotry, > or outright racism in 1940s America. To be fair, that was probably true worldwide in that time frame.
by bostonpete 13y ago
> There was no shortage of ignorance, bigotry,
> or outright racism in 1940s America.
To be fair, that was probably true worldwide in that time frame.
- astrodust 13y agoThis is surely true, but most countries weren't making movies like America was. It's just that America's racism is preserved in these various time-capsules. There's shades of this that persist to this day, like Black Peter (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zwarte_Piet http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zwarte_Piet), rituals from a time when that sort of thing was considered normal.