Nobody draws the Irish this way anymore. I blame cancel culture.pic.twitter.com/9mJZ6bPj2F
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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
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
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
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 …
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.
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.
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
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.
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
Entrance into the whiteness club demand the payment of embracing racism.
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