Is Quentin Tarantino a Liberal?

According to most conservatives, the world is divided into "Bad Guys" and "Good Guys", and it's easy to tell who is who. A liberal would say the world is made up of people of all types, and each country, each religion has some bad people and some good people and a lot of people in between. Statements like that drives conservatives crazy.

I need to do a follow up on the moral assumptions of Tarantino's new movie "Inglourious Basterds" which I see now is tops at the box office, and I'm not really surprised. Because the audience has almost a complete lack of historical perspective, they are getting a pure conservative philosophy of "good guys and bad guys"

Just to review some facts in the case. Before WW2, German Jews wanted to get out of Germany. No other countries would accept them in large enough numbers. The United States was one of those countries that denied the Jews a safe haven. And it was deliberate, because a large number of Americans hated Jews and were prejudiced against them. Much of this hatred came from the Southern USA where the Ku Klux Klan was leading a campaign of violence and hatred against blacks, Jews and lots of other minorities.

Was it just a coincidence that Brad Pitt, the leader of the Jewish commandos in this movie, was supposed to be from the Southern USA? Or is that part of Tarantino's conservative propaganda designed to cover up the "bad guy" aspect of Americans? Because I didn't see the movie, I'm going to have to wait to find out how Tarantino justified an all-Jewish unit (where all the members actually have a stereotypical Jewish look to them) being led by someone played by Brad Pitt, who was not only a Southerner but part Apache. And the Apache bloodline seems to be used as part of the reason for the cruelty, as if a Southerner would need native blood to be sadistic.

Just another historical reminder, slavery was a program of hate and sadism rivalling Hitlers holocaust of the Jews. Although slavery had officially ended 80 years before, the South had instituted a new version of slavery that was just as bad as the old fashioned and outlawed kind, which Franklin Roosevelt had to put an end to in order to counter the German and Japanese propaganda.

Evangelical Christian religion helps to support this kind of "Good Guy, Bad Guy" division, by insisting that you do not need to actually be good, to be a good guy. It seems like as long as you are "one of the chosen", any sadistic cruelty is forgiven. Plenty of passages in the Bible are quoted by Evangelicals to prove it. After all, they started out making excuses for slavery, and by now have pretty much memorized every passage of the Bible that supports wife beating, child abuse, slavery, and slaughter of all the enemy including women and children.

Here's an interesting Quote from Quentin Tarantino

JH: How would you describe your politics, Quentin?

QT: [Silence] I guess I'm a liberal. Definitely not conservative. I'm definitely not a Republican. Most people, when they're on one side or the other, don't paint with a small brush they paint with a f---in' roller and wipe everybody into pansy liberals or fascist dictators.

Maybe Quentin falls somewhere between, but not in the violence and gore department.