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    If they're poor, talk to them of poverty. If they're angry, give them objects for their anger. But most of all, make them an extension of yourself. Make their hate your hate. Say things like, “They call us hate mongers, they say we’re prejudiced, they say we hate…” (3-minutes)
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    If they’re poor, talk to them of poverty. If they’re angry, give them objects for their anger. But most of all, make them an extension of yourself. Make their hate your hate. Say things like, “They call us hate mongers, they say we’re prejudiced, they say we hate…” (3-minutes)


    The Twilight Zone, S4.E4 aired Jan 24, 1963 on CBS. YouTube link in the comments. The word "Minorities" was commonly used in 1963 (and for decades after that).



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    1. biospheric on

      Here’s the full 4-minutes on YouTube: [The Twilight Zone Speaks Out Against Fascism – Patrick Dodds](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=05LaTuuKPlI). Here it is on [Reddit](https://www.reddit.com/r/MarchAgainstNazis/comments/1hx5cny/the_twilight_zone_speaks_out_against_fascism/).

      The 4-minute video has a brief text Intro to Rod Serling, the show’s Creator (and Writer of this episode). It mentions that he served in WWII which deeply affected him and his writing. See [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rod_Serling#American_military_service) for details.

      The end of the video is Rod Serling speaking (audio only) which I highly recommend.

      The Twilight Zone, S4.E4: He’s Alive – January 24, 1963: [https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0734572/](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0734572/)

    2. biospheric on

      The word “Minorities” was commonly used when this episode aired in 1963. Here are criticisms of the word:

      [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Minority_group#Criticisms](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Minority_group#Criticisms)

      >There is a controversy with the use of the word minority, as it has a generic and an academic usage. Common usage of the term indicates a statistical minority; however, academics refer to power differences among groups rather than differences in population size among groups.

      >The above criticism is based on the idea that a group can be considered a minority even if it includes such a large number of people that it is numerically not a minority in society.

      >Some sociologists have criticized the concept of “minority/majority”, arguing this language excludes or neglects changing or unstable cultural identities, as well as cultural affiliations across national boundaries. As such, the term historically excluded groups (HEGs) is often similarly used to highlight the role of historical oppression and domination, and how this results in the under-representation of particular groups in various areas of social life.

    3. ahdidi413 on

      People sometimes forget that the playbook they are running isn’t new. It’s time tested. Too many people in our country just ignored history, or more generously don’t have access to enough reliable sources to learn from it.

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