Forum Overview :: Balance of Power :: The free speech for Hitler comic opens a fascinatingly gross can of worms.

[quote name="Commander Tansin A. Darcos"]Some wonder how the American people managed to stay so blissfully ignorant of the human rights abuses going on in their favoured trading partner, Nazi Germany, prior to World War II. Surely there were Jews in Hollywood, with family in concentration camps, who knew what was going on? Why didn't they just make a movie about it? Well, Warner Bros tried. They were shut down by the MPAA for violating the industry's self-imposed moral guidelines, the Hays Code, which in addition to recommending a longer skirt on Betty Boop suggested "avoiding picturizing in an unfavorable light another country's religion, history, institutions, prominent people, and citizenry" - in that case, Nazi Germany's. It makes you wonder if there are any important economic allies out there today whose crimes against their own ethnic and sexual minorities the corporate media are willing to overlook, in the interest of international relations?[/quote]