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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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    2. 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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    3. 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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    4. 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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      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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        1. 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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        2. Bram Reichbaum  🌠‏ @Bram_R 19 Mar 2021
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          Like comedians, illustrators and cinematographers are wired to take shortcuts where they can

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        3. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 19 Mar 2021
          Replying to @Bram_R

          I don't think it's so much short cuts as inherited traditions. I mean Seuss was alive when these types of images were common.

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        2. Jake Nelson‏ @JakeNelsonMN 19 Mar 2021
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          Reminded of stories about Watto and some other aliens in the Star Wars prequels, that Lucas thought racist caricatures had been made into such detailed characters but so far removed from the people they were intended to caricature, he thought they could be separated from that

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        3. Jake Nelson‏ @JakeNelsonMN 19 Mar 2021
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          (I have no idea if that's an accurate description of his thought process, it was a claim that went around at the time)

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        1. S‏ @watershipdowne 19 Mar 2021
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          Admit it you work for the Whos

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        1. alexjacobs‏ @alexjacobs 19 Mar 2021
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          Agatha Christie "10 Little N-words" becomes 10 Little Indians becomes Bloody Bloody Andrew Jackson & 10 Little Indians tale of genocide is still taught in schools. Disney's Old King Cole from Silly Symphony series.https://indiancountrytoday.com/archive/ten-little-indians-genocidal-nursery-rhyme …

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        1. blivet‏ @issabailot 20 Mar 2021
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          It was a different time being a cat.

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        1. briarpatch‏ @briarpatch 20 Mar 2021
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          Kind of like the "wop" stereotypes that Chico Marx built his character on.

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