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17 April 2010

Right Wing Youth Spews Hate Speech

(art by Arthur Szyk, Collier's, 1942)

I have access to Nolo Trippen's unpublished writings, not just what was used in Liberalese. Trippen was ahead of the curve in crafing the historically innocuous into something invidious, thus assuring the world of a never-ending corocopia of things the Left could find ojectionable. He wrote:

Not long ago, a nation known as the United States (E pluribus unum: "out of many, one" -- as long as you're white) got in a little dust up with socialist and imperialist powers overseas. Happily, the US didn't end up fighting communist powers at the same time because the socialists (Nazis) turned on the communists (Soviets) before the communists could turn on the socialists. The US had to fight whatever was left over: the GIPs (Germans, Italians, Japanese). The US was pretty much out of line from the get-go in this war. Having been mildly bombed in a non-transparent-surprise attack by the Japanese, the US did not answer with equivalent force, but nuked the innocents of Nippon. This lack of a reasonable response still drives the US and Israel (but no other nation) to this day.

Today, Trippen has competition in rewriting WWII history. Here's Tom Hanks being interviewed for his HBO series, The Pacific, "Back in World War II we viewed the Japanese as 'yellow, slant-eyed dogs' that believed in different gods. They were out to kill us because our way of living was different. We, in turn, wanted to annihilate them because they were different. Does that sound familiar, by any chance, to what's going on today?" (interview with Douglas Brinkley, Time, 6 March 2010).

No Tom, it doesn't. The US threw in with the Entente Powers during WWI of which Japan was a member. So was Russia and Italy and Romania. Racism had nothing at all to do with Japan attacking us on 7 December 1941. Japan didn't like the US meddling in the Japanese invasion and devastation of China (the Chinese, you know, are different, so why would we care, Tom?). We wanted Japan out of China. Japan wanted to stay. The Japanese hoped to gain time to build up their already considerable military by crippling US and UK forces in the region. Japan had seen a lack of willingness to fund our own military (one Japanese observer was inspired when he saw Yanks train with broom sticks because not enough rifles were available) and decided to strike, as most bullies do, when we were weakest. Also, these 'yellow, slant-eyed dogs' were treated rather well after the war by the United States which helped it morph into one the world's top industrial powers. Of course, we gulaged 75,000 Japanese American citizens during WWII (under Franklin D. Roosevelt), but they were just a different "kind" of American, so no big deal for the Left.

And how are we annihilating our "because they (are) different" enemies today? America makes a habit of keeping civilian casualties to a minimum. If we hated our enemy so much, why are we helping to establish the first Arabic democracies in the region? Why are we risking our lives in a war that the Tom Hanks of the world can only myopically see in the most juvenile terms? True, we will probably have a military presence in the region for years to come, but we still have a military presence in Japan, South Korea, and Germany.

(art by Arthur Szyk, Esquire, 1942)
the nations include Germany, Vichy France, Romania, Spain, Finland, Japan, and Italy in the rear

Trippen had set aside a copy of Look Magazine from 4 April 1944 and had dog-eared an article called, "If kids caught Hitler." See the scan below.

Trippen wrote notes in the margins, starting with this near title: right wing youth spews hate. Near Jimmy Horan's photo, Trippen wrote: violent delusional. The comment for Joseph Mendoza was future jackboot of Gitmo. For the Rosenthal brothers he jotted: fascists! Considering the Rosenthals were Jewish and their people were being slaughtered by actual fascists, Trippen's comment is lunacy, but I long ago found out that "fascist" to the Left simply means anyone who disagrees with the Left.

Trippen was a proud historical revisionist. To him, whatever has been done to America, America deserved and whatever America did to another country or people was beyond the pale. Film maker Oliver Stone follows in Trippen's footsteps: "We can't judge people as only 'bad' or 'good' -- (Hitler) is the product of a series of actions. It's cause and effect. People in America don't know the connection between World War I and World War II. Hitler is an easy scapegoat throughout history and it's been used cheaply. Not to paint him as a hero, but to tell a more factual representation -- he fought the German war machine more than any person." (newscom.au, 11 January 2010).

What the youth of America in 1944 understood and what the really smart people of today's America do not is that there are people who are evil (Hitler, Stalin, Mao, Che, PolPot...), people whom you can judge as "bad or good." It didn't matter if they had an interesting back-story that might make for a good Olive Stone documentary.

Speaking of Look Magazine . . .

It's been asserted that Tom Hanks' revisionist comments are one reason his new WWII miniseries, The Pacific, is tanking. Look's circulation when it closed on 19 October 1971 was an impressive 6.5 million. Ratings for Tom Hank's The Pacific hover at roughly 3 million.


Joseph Horan, aged 12: "I'd beat him up. But you'd never know if you had Hitler himself; he's got guys around him posed like him to fool people, so how could you tell for sure?”	Joseph Mendoza, aged 12: "I'd kill him, but I'd torture him first; I'd stick needles in him and I wouldn't give him water. He kills plenty of our boys, so he's got it coming."

John and Frank Rosenthal, aged 9 and 13: "We'd cut him up in small pieces, because he's a bum. He tells the Germans they're supermen, and gets them to try to conquer the world."	John Whalen, aged 9: ”I’d kill him -- just knock him off. And you can say I'd make it the longest way. He thinks he's so brave, but if we get him I bet he wouldn't be so brave at all."

Salvatore Chila, aged 9: "I wouldn't kill him, no sir. Why? Because we Americans just don't do that kind of thing. I'd just call up the Army and tell them to come and get him."	William Mullin, aged 9: "I'd kill him. Then I'd punch him in the nose. But if he was too tough for me, then I'd telephone the police; they'd come in a car and put handcuffs on him."

(art by Arthur Szyk, Coronet, 1942)

(art by Arthur Szyk, Liberty, 1942)

(art by Arthur Szyk, Liberty, 1943)

Thomas J. Clement