Henry C.K. Liu
kelley wrote:
> henry, when i was doing research on plant closings in a community i lived
> in, i read about how the factory recruited folks from eastern europe and
> northern italy just so they could put them to work in a chemical factory
> where many of them were killed, maimed, burned, and had body parts torn off
> or burned off from the chemicals.
> this was similarly violent behavior, normalized, acceptable, and so on and
> certainly rationally calculated. these folks were seen as less than human
> and expendable too and US labor history is replete with such examples. i'm
> not belittling the often ignored and poorly taugh history of chinese
> oppression in this country, but it is just plain wrong for you to think
> that some of those who you consider "white" now weren't treated as if they
> were less than human a century ago.
>
> furthermore there were activist groups who worked against the shameful
> treatment of chinese americans. yes it wasn't questioned much but there
> surely were groups of white folks--especially patronizing
> religious/missionary groups--who worked toward ending such abuse. yes,
> often to only reinscribe their own brand of racism, but nonetheless.
>
> At 02:17 PM 22/06/99 -0400, Henry C.K. Liu wrote:
> >The Whites are very experienced in that. All the railroad tunnels in Western
> >America and Canada and all the mines were dug by dynamite blasts ignated by
> >human (Chinese) detonators with no delay fuse.
> >This is the meaning of moral imperialism.
> >
> >Henry C.K. Liu
> >
> >Wojtek Sokolowski wrote:
> >
> >> At 09:46 AM 6/22/99 -0700, you wrote:
> >> >
> >> >NATO Bomb Kills Two Peacekeepers;
> >> >Clinton Thanks Macedonians for Help
> >> >
> >> >Associated Press
> >> >
> >> >The British military said Tuesday that a bomb blast killed two
> >> >peacekeeping soldiers and two civilians as the troops cleared
> >> >explosives from a schoolhouse.
> >> >
> >> >They said the accident came not from a Serb booby-trap, but
> >> >from a NATO cluster bomb that accidentally went off.
> >> >
> >> >The deaths Monday of Lt. Gareth Evans and Sgt. Balaram Rai --
> >> >Nepalese soldiers attached to the British army -- were the first
> >> >allied fatalities since NATO peacekeepers entered Kosovo on June
> >> >12. Dozens of civilians, however, have died in explosions of land
> >> >mines and booby-traps since the peacekeeping force began to take
> >> >control of the southern Serb province.
> >>
> >> So it looks like the British Army is still using the brown people as mine
> >> detectors. Very social democratic and humanitarian (for the white men),
> >> indeed.
> >>
> >> Heil Blair.
> >>
> >> wojtek
> >
> >