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cliffside

(1,600 posts)
Fri Mar 21, 2025, 09:34 PM Mar 2025

Watch this US anti fascist educational film from 1945 - Don't Be a Sucker [View all]

2 minutes ... short version. See also
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Don%27t_Be_a_Sucker

full version on YouTube 22 minutes "Don't be a Sucker" not linked.



transcript from link

"0:00
I've heard this kind of talk before but
0:02
I never expected to hear it in
0:04
America this seems to know what he's
0:07
talking prot yes he knows all right away
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from us what's the answer what are we
0:13
Real Americans going to do about it
0:15
you'll find it right here in this little
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pamplet excuse me young man but are you
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actually going to read that stuff sure
0:22
why not you heard what he said going on
0:24
in this country yes I heard find do you
0:26
believe in that kind of talk and you'll
0:28
find out who makes pretty good sense to
0:30
me I'm speaking to you as an American am
0:33
and I tell you friends we'll never be
0:36
able to call this country our own until
0:38
it's a country
0:41
without without what yeah without what
0:44
without
0:45
Negroes without alien foreigners without
0:49
Catholics without
0:51
Freemasons you know these people what's
0:54
wrong with the Masons I'm a Mason time
0:56
for to get together and hey that F's
0:58
talking about me and that makes a
1:00
difference doesn't it these are your
1:03
enemies I was born in Hungary but now I
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am an American citizen and I have seen
1:08
what this kind of talk can do I saw it
1:10
in Berlin what were you doing there I
1:13
was a professor at the University I
1:15
heard the same words we have heard today
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but I was a fool then I thought Nazis
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were crazy people stupid
1:23
fanatics but unfortunately it was not
1:26
so you see they knew that they were not
1:29
strong enough to conquer a unified
1:31
country so they split Germany into small
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groups they use Prejudice as a practical
1:36
weapon to the
1:38
nation of course that was not easy to do
1:41
they had to work hard to do it you see
1:45
we human beings are not born with
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prejudices always they are made for us
1:51
made by someone who wants something
1:53
remember that when you hear this kind of
1:55
talk somebody is going to get something
1:57
out of it and it isn't going to be us oh"





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