In 1939...

[thewayne]

"Propaganda Minister Joseph Goebbels today ended the professional careers of five 'Aryan' actors and cabaret announcers by expelling them from the Reich's Chamber of Culture on the grounds that 'in their public appearances they displayed a lack of any positive attitude toward National Socialism and therewith caused grave annoyance in public and especially to party comrades.'"
-- New York Times, Feb. 3, 1939

A friend of mine sent me a copy from the archive. Fun times, eh?

Comments

[mtbc]

It's all been amazing to see and live through, especially not knowing what happens.

[silveradept]

We're certainly living in the times of those who have failed to learn the lessons of history. We can hope that we don't flunk completely, but we're not looking good at this point.

[thewayne]

The problem is that our government was much like the internet, predicated on good intentions.  And now people with truly evil intentions have seized power.

[silveradept]

I'm not so sure that good intentions were put into it, as much as working in the idea that for as much as politics were to rage, everyone involved was working on what they believed would be best for the country and all the people there. We've had a long string of Republican presidents and legislators who have decided they instead only want to help specific segments of the population, and they've finally put in enough Justices and judges to facilitate that idea instead of shutting it down as they should.