When Dr Seuss Made Editorial Cartoons.

[theweaselking]

(Still applicable today, except the targets of the piece are no longer the Germans.)

Comments

[dranon.livejournal.com]

You ordinarily see his kids' books, of course, but the book Dr. Seuss Goes to War, in which these and his other war cartoons appeared, is truly amazing.

[dreamshade.livejournal.com]

But wouldn't the war supporters just say that we're the ones with the hats on?

[pope-guilty.livejournal.com]

Well, yeah- Seuss is mocking those who don't want to get into WWII.

[theweaselking.livejournal.com]

Yes, except that when you accept German=American in the extended metaphor, the cartoon stops being about isolationists wanting to ignore Hitler and starts being about people willing to ignore torture and murder and the upcoming genocide.

[pope-guilty.livejournal.com]

The torture and murder and upcoming genocide that we can't do a damn thing to stop.

[theweaselking.livejournal.com]

You're Americans. You can stop it by stopping the Americans who are doing it now and going to do it in the future.

[pope-guilty.livejournal.com]

Ah, I thought you meant the internecine sunni v shiite v kurd murder/torture/upcoming genocide.

[theweaselking.livejournal.com]

No, I meant the torture and murder right now and upcoming genocide on the current course of Muslims, Mexicans, and anyone else deemed not white enough for America.

[theweaselking.livejournal.com]

They would. What's your point?