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Thread #90141 Message #1720626
Posted By: GUEST,AR282
17-Apr-06 - 07:48 PM
Thread Name: BS: The truth about Tom & Jerry
Subject: RE: BS: The truth about Tom & Jerry
I certainly don't remember Tom & Jerry as a Disney creation.
Hitler certainly didn't start the persecution of Jews in Europe. The yellow star idea actually came from the medieval French (along with a horned cap, both of which had to be worn in public at all times).
So Jerry the mouse is Jewish. You know, I've never trusted that mouse!
I guess we kind of got a glimpse into the crap that went around Nazi Germany disguised as scholarship. Pseudo-science and pseudo-history.
I'm surprised he didn't mention that the sound fx man for the Hanna-Barbera series was Todd Dockstader who did some extremely freaky, weird electronic pieces with tape manipulation and oscillators. In fact, he was creating these flipping bizarre pieces in the early 60s while doing the sound for the cartoons--his day job, I suppose. He's pretty much regarded as a highly innovative and influential early electronic musical pioneer among the avant-garde set--he's virtually a god. He could be said to have been engaged in decadent experimental Jewish arts that subvert traditional values although I don't know if Dockstader was Jewish.