Cartoon: "reverse racism"

[mahnmut]

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[johnny9fingers.livejournal.com]

So, even in sunny California, the cartoon has some relevance.

Mind you, the Chinese are more interesting, given that they're about to become our new overlords, rather than the victims of our oppression.

[johnny9fingers.livejournal.com]

And I'm English and Irish.

But:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eight-Nation_Alliance

seems to indicate that both the UK and the US (along with Japan, Italy, France, Germany, Russia, and Austria-Hungary) were involved in some way or another in oppressing the Chinese.

You may just get away with the Mexican bit, but the Irish had soldiers there too as part of the British Army as then was. :)

[anfalicious.livejournal.com]

Using Irish troops as saying Irish supported English colonialism is kinda like using black Confederate troops to say that blacks were in support of slavery :P

[johnny9fingers.livejournal.com]

Are you entirely sure, old thing: the British Army at the time was volunteer. There was no conscription.

[johnny9fingers.livejournal.com]

In fact, there wasn't even conscription in Northern Ireland during WWII. (And most of the volunteers in the Irish regiments were from the Free State.)

[mahnmut.livejournal.com]

You have a Free State? Hey, ours is even Orange!