I suspect stuff like that was probably more influential on writers in this period than actual policies at the time, but I’m no expert.Īnd now I’ve had the damn song stuck in my head for nearly 24 hours straight and I can’t stop myself!! And then, for example, the brown men kidnapping a white woman and making her dress like Genie is still pretty easy to find (I just found another example when I was watching Jack of all Trades, and I just realized 2000 was a while ago and it’s making me feel really old) but definitely completely normalized 25 years ago.Īs for US interventionism and backing various armed forces against governments we don’t like in pop culture SPECIFICALLY, Rambo III comes to mind, even if that time it was about fighting communists. Not piling on but just having stuff to say cos I’ve had to think a lot about it.Īnyways, a lot of the racist tropes discussed in the comic are older than the 1950s, they’re easily found in a lot of Victorian and older novels. Sometimes US foreign policy in the Middle East manifested in xenophobia that expressed itself as anti-ethnicity rather than about a specific religion and often it implicitly conflates the two. Before they decided they wanted the Iraqi government out following the Gulf War.
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