Friday Dead Racist Blogging: The More Things Change Edition

[skemono]

Well, Edna, for a school with no Asian kids, I think we've achieved a grade-A science fair!

Principal Skinner, The Simpsons, "Duffless", episode 4x16

Comments

[anoushkala]

Genghis Khan was white??? O_O And Buddha was white? And there are no civilization's and no monarchies that weren't white? Wow... I guess they never really looked at that whole Japanese Emperor thing that they had going on for thousands of years....

These people were more than nuts... they were just plain stupid.

[skemono]

Genghis Khan was white??? O_O And Buddha was white?
Hey, they thought Jesus was white, didn't they? This is hardly that different.
I guess they never really looked at that whole Japanese Emperor thing that they had going on for thousands of years....
Oh no. Even worse. They looked at it--and decided that it was made by whites. Because civilizations are made by whites, you know? They've already established that. So if Japanese people have civilization... it must have been created by whites!

It's truly mind-boggling.

[rava77]

tl;dnr ... at least no more than the parts of John Van Evrie book... What a utter jerk, he seems to not have understood even one ounce of what the Old Chinese pulled off.... like years and years prior Columbus set his sails...

But that reminds me of a thing I found on tvtropes, but have been the "the n word" trope (or similar).

It went like "Caucasian people happily adopt the names Asian people give them and use these names, to the frustration of Black and Asian people"

Well, I don't know about that but I know of a racial slur that was in former days used against black GIs in Germany, but now is used against any GIs in Germany, and I know that especially the white GIs get pissed because of that. *shrug*
So the detail on that trope cannot be 100 right...