Henry C.K. Liu
Marco Anglesio wrote:
> On Tue, 22 Jun 1999, Henry C.K. Liu wrote:
> > kirsten neilsen wrote:
> >
> > > gee, tell that to the irish, who, along side the chinese, built the
> > > railroads in the u.s. or the poles, the italians, european jews ... all
> > > of these groups, and more, were racialied, considered of inferior races, etc.
> >
> > But only the Chinese were used as human detonators, and it was not
> > because they invented gunpowder.
>
> That's the second time I've heard you make that assertion, Henry. There
> was a considerable cost in human life when the railroads crossed the
> Rockies, from rockfall, from blasting, but I've never heard that Chinese
> were used as human fuses. Do you have any citations or references to that
> effect?
>
> marco
>
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