This transcript is from the movie “Real Bad Arabs, How Hollywood Vilifies a People”. Arabs are the most maligned group in the history of Hollywood. They’re portrayed basically as sub-humans – ‘Untermenchen’, a term used by Nazis to vilify gypsies and Jews. These images have been with us for more than a century.
The director of the movie has for the past 30 years looked into how image makers have projected Arabs, so in this movie the intention has been to make visible what too many of us seem not to see: a dangerously consistent pattern of
hateful Arab stereotypes, stereotypes that rob an entire people of their humanity.
