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Don't Be a Sucker
US National Archives
A 1945 US Army educational film that dramatizes how demagogues use prejudice and scapegoating to divide people. It opens with fake wrestling matches and crooked gambling games to show how con artists work, then applies the lesson to racial and religious bigotry.
HN commenters bring it up in political threads as a classic warning about divisive agitators and fascism, and suggest it be remade for each generation.
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