When the US lost its lucrative slave trade from Africa, after the
Civil War in 1865, these upstanding businessmen and Christians simply
started sailing their US flag ships to Southern China, to capture and
buy one million Chinese, to sell across the Americas. This went on until
1874, when the Chinese emperor's ceaseless diplomatic and public
relations campaigns in the West finally shamed them into stopping.
It was these Chinese "coolie" slaves (from the Chinese, kuli,
or "bitter strength") who built America's railroads out West. Those who
didn't die from starvation and mistreatment were exterminated through
ethnic cleansing across the Western United States. As with Andrew
Jackson's Indian Removal Act, this frenzy of bloodlust against the
Yellow Peril was codified by the 1882 Chinese Exclusion Act. Like Native
Americans and "freed" slaves, it was open season for slaughter, and
many thousands of Chinese coolies were hunted and killed like rabid
dogs. There is a reason why the saying, "He doesn't stand a Chinaman's
chance", became so popular in 19th century America. Because it was true.
Mr. Lindqvist spells out, with scathing research, why Slavs and the
Yellow Peril were (and are) considered just as subhuman as Africans, in
the eyes of Western Europeans and Americans. European and American
colonialists called all the different dark skinned peoples in their
colonies, "n****rs", "brutes", "kaffirs", "beasts", "inferior races" and
"lower races" -- from the Caribbean to Central-South America to Africa
and Asia -- Russians and Chinese included. They were classified by the
West's best scientists as something between an ape and the superior
Western race. Predestined extinction of these weaker, less intelligent
subhumans was simply the natural order and this "scientific theory"
filled volumes of academic journals in English, French, Spanish and
German.
Hitler fondly called the Japanese "honorary Aryans". When their
imperial army slaughtered 300,000 innocent Chinese women, children, aged
and others, during the Nanjing Massacre, in 1937, it caused just as
little outrage among Western Europeans and Americans, as all the
countless genocides committed in their names and for their financial
enrichment, since 1492. Which Westerners cared then and who cares today?
Just look at Syria/Iraq, Palestine, the Ukraine, the Congo's pygmies,
the Amazon's indigenous tribes and Burma's Rohingya Muslim minority, to
name a scant few. They are just the tip of the West's ongoing, unwritten
policy of genocide and extermination, either directly or by proxy.
After all, as they say, n****rs are just n****rs.
Trophy shot. Westerners didn't bat an eye, when Hitler's honorary
Aryans, the Japanese slaughtered 300,000 Chinese over six weeks in
Nanjing, 1937. They still don't give a rat's ass about humanity's Moral
Majority, n****rs all, in Western eyes.
This has troubling implications for current events and the 21st century.
What is clear is that this deep seated Western racism has not gone
away. It is still alive and well in the hallowed halls of power, capital
and empire. Western racism is clearly expressed by Zbigniew Brzezinski,
America's foreign policy czar since the Carter administration. He sums
up his genocidal philosophy, with, "Today it is infinitely easier to
kill a million people than to control a million people", and how
important it is to, "Keep the barbarians killing each other".
"Barbarian" is only a slightly more socially acceptable synonym for
"n-word", and we can see his psychopathic, imperial handiwork in
Afghanistan, where he created Al-Qaeda, Iraq, Syria, Libya, the Ukraine
and elsewhere, not to mention the destabilization of China, via its
predominately Muslim province of Xinjiang.
Westerners cannot write about their racial superiority and the
perceived subhumaness of non-Westerners, like they were able to do so
freely, until the 1950s. But it is still manifestly the fundamental
principle that drives America's "exceptionalism" and the West's "shining
beacon on a hill" superiority, thus legitimizing ongoing Western
genocide, wars, government overthrows and economic and resource
exploitation, through the "benign, invisible hand" of capitalism, across
Planet Earth.
British Prime Minister Winston Churchill simply stated longstanding,
Western imperial policy and popular, public sentiment, when he said, to
justify the genocide of Palestinians, in order to create Israel,
"I do not agree that the dog in a manger has the final right to the
manger even though he may have lain there for a very long time. I do not
admit that right. I do not admit for instance, that a great wrong has
been done to the Red Indians of America or the black people of
Australia. I do not admit that a wrong has been done to these people by
the fact that a stronger race, a higher-grade race, a more worldly-wise
race to put it that way, has come in and taken their place".
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