Shades of Yellow Peril

[Terrance]

David Morris wrote:
> 
> >From: Terrance
> >
> >[snip] How did the U.S.  manage to convince people that the yellow man was
> >a shiftless darky, then to distrust the inscrutable china man, then the
> >Jap, then, the Rusky, then.... so on and so on.......fascinating story of
> >racist stereotypes, discrimination, propaganda, Spawned in part, as Pynchon
> >makes clear in TSI and in GR  by Their theater in hollywood.
> 
> Of course the above assumes acceptance of the Paranoid Model.  

NO, it doesn't. 

However, it
> might also be (present tense included) that nobody needed to be "convinced,"
> that good old white (or Polish, or Itallian, or German, or any other sub-set
> of white) "Tribalism" might be the cause.  You know: "Those Chinee are
> WEIRD!  And Lord knows we don't want to have to deal with their customs (or
> food, or God, or... you get the picture)."

But people did need to be convinced. In the U.S., we managed
to shift the bulls eye from the black man to various yellow
men, this  is not a paranoid myth or a political narrative,
it's a fact, it happened, it's history, U.S. history.
Chinese came to the U.S. in large numbers for the first time
after the 1848 gold discoveries in California, the Chinese
miners tax was imposed in 1850....the story goes on like
this, Chinese cannot own property, they are shiftless and
unreliable, they cannot testify in court....Chinese
exclusion act
1882....Filipines....Koreans....Japanese....Chinese.....Koreans.....Vietnamese
communists....Vietnam Wall...

The movies plays a huge role in shifting the racist
stereotypes from bull-'seye to bulls eye....


> 
> BTW, any particular Media outlet is owned by some HUMAN, not some
> conspiracy, right?
> 
> David Morris
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