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Tuesday, September 24, 2013
Tuesday, September 24, 2013
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"The Whites, by law of conquest, by justice of civilization, are masters of the American continent, and the best safety of the frontier settlements will be secured by the total annihilation of the few remaining Indians. Why not annihilation? Their glory has fled, their spirit broken, their manhood effaced; better that they die than live the miserable wretches that they are."
L. Frank Baum advocating genocide, December 20th, 1890.
It is August 25th, 1939. As Hitler masses his troops on the Polish border, Judy Garland skips down the Yellow Brick Road for the first time. By the time The Wizard of Oz is on wide release Hitler will have sparked World War II, fascist ideology plunging the world into a confrontation that will leave millions dead. In a sick parallel Baum's twin dreams come to life simultaneously, Oz is realised on the silver screen at precisely the same moment as his fantasy of racial extermination is enacted with brutal efficiency in the Nazi death camps.
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