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Notes"My conclusion: for America to survive economically in the coming Sino-Japanese world, an alliance with the Soviet Union is a necessity. After all, the white race is a minority race with many well deserved enemies, and if the two great powers of the Northern Hemisphere don’t band together, we are going to end up as farmers–or, worse, mere entertainment–for the more than one billion grimly efficient Asiatics."Gore Vidal, “The Empire Lovers Strike Back” (via clubjacobin)
Vidal was ahead of his time with the Sino-Japanese comment. It’s funny to see the same yellow peril rhetoric directed against Japan in the 80’s being used now against the Chinese. Even the debt thing. Incidentally, Japan owns almost as big a share of our national debt as China-nowhere near the amount owned by the American public, of course.
(via boringfatwhitedude)
This essay was written in 1986, at which point white panic about Japanese domination were already standard fare in America, so I don’t think there’s any special prescience to it. Vincent Chin had already been murdered four years before that, for example.
Also, the entire essay is basically an extended exercise in papering over raw anti-Semitism with a very very thin veneer of anti-Zionism or anti-imperialism. Vidal was a bigot of the old school (and an apologist for child rape too). Like the tag says, fuck that guy.
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Notes"My conclusion: for America to survive economically in the coming Sino-Japanese world, an alliance with the Soviet Union is a necessity. After all, the white race is a minority race with many well deserved enemies, and if the two great powers of the Northern Hemisphere don’t band together, we are going to end up as farmers–or, worse, mere entertainment–for the more than one billion grimly efficient Asiatics."Gore Vidal, “The Empire Lovers Strike Back”
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“Wouldn’t it be awesome if someone making their Mission project could make an Ohlone say ‘gotta do what you gotta do’ as they attacked Mission”
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POWER TO THE UNION!
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