I first saw this afterschool special when I was 16 and have used it in my own social studies classroom. It's a powerful document that needs to be watched by every racist Trumpster out there. It happens just this easily.
Monday, August 6, 2018
The Wave (1981)
I first saw this afterschool special when I was 16 and have used it in my own social studies classroom. It's a powerful document that needs to be watched by every racist Trumpster out there. It happens just this easily.
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Thanks for posting this, Cal!
I'd never seen it until now. Powerful stuff, even 30+ years later...
I like to think I would've been part of "the Resistance" but who am I kidding?
Like most people, I would've been swept up by the Wave.
Feel so bad for the outcast at the end, though...
It's true: the marginalised and downtrodden are the quickest to embrace facism...
Sobering as hell.
Yup, really makes it's point though. People needed to feel bad. Like that kid who basically was a Brownshirt. It's scary how it gve his life purpose and a strong identity in the service of evil. It's incidious that to feel worthwhile had to come at the cost of other people's lives.
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