Nobody draws the Irish this way anymore. I blame cancel culture.pic.twitter.com/9mJZ6bPj2F
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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 …
I've seen photos of my great grandmother. The Irish really looked like this.
She doesn't look that much like the Grinch, though. The top half of her face is broadened, the bottom half of the Grinch's is.
She has a conspicuous nose, the Grinch a tiny one. The shape of the eyes is entirely different.
To my knoweldge, the first person to make that connection (in an email, to me) is Michelle Abate. There may be people prior to her who have noticed, of course. But that’s the origin of the observation I make in the 2014 article that would form the title chapter of WtCitHB? (2017)
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