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Video essays that explore the intersection of art, culture, and big ideas written & produced by FEE's Director of Media, Sean W. Malone.

Fullmetal Alchemist Has a Genocide Problem.

July 22, 2021

On this short edition of Out of Frame, we answer your calls to do an anime-related episode through “Fullmetal Alchemist: Brotherhood”. In the series, brothers Edward and Alphonse Elric grow up seeing the traumatic residual effects of war through their parents and adults around them. The State Alchemists who came before them were ordered by the government to carry out a brutal slaughter after an incident sparks chaos. Although some sympathy is due for the horrors they saw, there is a cost to blindly trusting people in power. Exactly what that cost is and what the solution is, we cover in this episode.


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Written by Jen Maffessanti & Sean W. Malone
Produced by Sean W. Malone
Edited by Michael Ozias
Asst. Edited by Jason Reinhardt


LINKS:

https://theintercept.com/2018/03/15/washington-breaks-out-the-just-following-orders-nazi-defense-for-cia-director-designate-gina-haspel/

https://www.newsweek.com/ice-director-uses-nazi-defence-claim-border-policy-not-hitler-regime-were-just-985451

https://www.heyalma.com/when-officers-are-just-following-orders-remember-where-weve-heard-that-before/

https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/opinions/1979/10/21/they-were-just-following-orders/34d2eb42-daf6-49b9-af28-37a9582d0688/

https://allthatsinteresting.com/vasili-arkhipov


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