Comments by "marialiyubman" (@marialiyubman) on "The Dark Side of Science: The Horrors of the Facial Expression Experiment 1924 (Short Documentary)" video.

  1. Considering they were played Jazz music in the 1920s, there would be people whose reaction wouldn’t be to the music, but more to prohibition (for or against), and segregation (for or against, with distinct racism), did they document any of this? This is the main problem with sound and smell in particular. They go much deeper in our brains than we previously thought. If a KKK democrat listened to jazz in 1920 (before Elvis, mind you), they would be expected to react as badly as the pornographic scene. And I’m sure a racist person would also get really angry, because the main problem they had with jazz music was that it made you move and enjoy it (mainly ragtime and blues, not freestyle jazz we know today), and if you really hate the person who made this music and even consider them non-human and inferior, you’d be very angry if they elicited any emotion out of you. It’s almost as if they outsmarted you. Did anyone comment on that? This is, after all, the era when eugenics was considered a good thing, and it’s what led to WWII.
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  2. I’m hosting a slumber party for everyone who won’t be sleeping anyway after seeing this. BYOB.
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