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    1. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 19 Mar 2021

      Nobody draws the Irish this way anymore. I blame cancel culture.pic.twitter.com/9mJZ6bPj2F

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      Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 19 Mar 2021

      In greater seriousness, I know the whiteness literature is a little out of fashion right now, but it's hard for me to look at 19th century art & not conclude that Anglo-American WASPs racialized Irish Catholics.

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        2. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 19 Mar 2021

          Some people have noticed that the woman (Bridget McBruiser, an example of Irish depravity from Samuel Wells' 1866 New Physiognomy) looks like the Grinch. That's not an accident.pic.twitter.com/Z1Oq2aezjl

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        3. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 19 Mar 2021

          One compelling argument made by @philnel is that Dr. Seuss used ethnic stereotypes not just for human characters but also as the basis of various fanciful or anthropomorphic creations like The Grinch & Cat in the Hat.pic.twitter.com/uL9lurkER4

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        4. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 19 Mar 2021

          This is not - I want to be clear on this - an argument for delisting or cancelling the Grinch or Cat in the Hat. The stereotypes they were built on are so distant & suppressed that they are really invisible (or almost so) to contemporary readers. But it's good history to know

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        5. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 19 Mar 2021

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          So, something I didn't know:the simian Irish imagery continued for as long as X-Men #28 (1967) with The Banshee. (Created by Roy Thomas and Werner Roth).https://twitter.com/Jezzerat/status/1373149788586319874 …

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          The Banshee from X-Men #28 (Jan. 1967) pic.twitter.com/QVMO2ByGLk
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        1. Meg seanchaibeag‏ @seanchaibeag 19 Mar 2021
          Replying to @HeerJeet

          Largely correct, imo. (Famine Irish American raised in ex-pat circles who grew up talking about this a *lot*.) I'd like to do some organized writing on it someday, but as you say, there doesn't seem to be space for it atm. Which is fine. It remains an interesting thread to pull.

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        2. Marc Songini‏ @Msongini 19 Mar 2021
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          I'm Irish Italian from Boston. I have endlessly pleaded with my fellow second and third generation colleagues from. Italy and Ireland to remember that nothing a racist says about minorities now wasn't said about our grandparents. And the smears weren't true then, or now.

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        1. Jake Nelson‏ @JakeNelsonMN 19 Mar 2021
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          The first time I saw some 1890s cartoons describing my Scandinavian ancestors' arrival in the Midwest as being "overrun by German barbarians" was a very peculiar sensation

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        1. Donald Price‏ @dwprice 19 Mar 2021
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          No question about it. In New Orleans, Irish immigrants worked on the river because African-American slaves were too valuable to risk. And that was in a largely Catholic (albeit French and Spanish) culture.

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        2. John L Roberson‏ @jlr_1969 19 Mar 2021
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          of COURSE they did; in their opinion the Irish were not included in "whiteness" and once they WERE included there was a lot of kicking down the ladder, as is often sadly the case

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        3. Dr. Rosemary C. Reilly‏ @rosemary_reilly 19 Mar 2021
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          Entrance into the whiteness club demand the payment of embracing racism.

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