Sunday, February 12, 2006

the alleged doctor

Am I the last person in the world to know that the word nerd comes from Dr. Seuss?

Am I the last person in the world to know that Dr. Seuss did some pretty frightening war propaganda about the Japanese (including Japanese Americans)?

posted by bkmarcus on Sunday, February 12, 2006  

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4 Comments:

Gaurav Ahuja said...

It is funny because of the caricature. I doubt anyone would've taken this cartoon with anything but a grain of salt anyway.

8:14 PM  
Anthony Gregory said...

It was more than just "this cartoon." Here are sixty of the racist and "funny" cartoons, which Americans?in the midst of a race war with Japan, whose civilians FDR called "Japs" and slaughtered mostly with acceptance?did not by and large take with a "grain of salt."

10:03 PM  
bkmarcus said...

Well, I won't argue the humor or taste of racial stereotypes, but the grain-of-salt thesis flies in the face of the massive organized violation of the rights of Japanese American civilians.

Please see the following:

wikipedia.org/wiki/Japanese_internment

lewrockwell.com/gregory/gregory31.html

(Nothing similar was done to Germans or Italians, not in that particular war.)

2:11 PM  
Vache Folle said...

Is it true that Horton Hears a Who was anti-abortion propaganda? "A person's a person no matter how small" was the moral of the story.

Are these Who's the same species of being from whom the Grinch stole Christmas? I can't keep the Dr Seuss alternate reality straight.

4:07 PM  

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