more politics.

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teletubbies of the dead?

Hmmm, that's kind of interesting, but I'm not sure it works. People who have watched "Birth of A Nation" already know how racist it is; people who haven't might not even realize that these are all actual clips from the film.

Personally, I think everybody ought to watch "Birth of a Nation" and "Triumph of the WIll". The same techniques that Griffith used to glorify racism, and the Riefenstahl used to glorify Nazism, are still being used today to sell a whole host of, shall we say, questionable ideologies. I also think it's good to remember that brilliant artists sometimes use their brilliance in the service of evil.