“Crisis Inflames Bias Against Asians; Ethnic stereotypes in broadcast, print media prompt protests.” David Anderson at Metaforage pointed to this article in the same breath as he reflected on my coverage of Johnny Hart’s fundamentalist boldness in “B.C.” . He finds it all a sign of things to come now that the likes of Li’l George rule the roost. But the jingoistic anti-foreigner vitriol which makes me feel so embarrassed to be an American has happened every time there’s an international crisis with a nation whose people don’t look, talk, or worship like us. I still cringe when I think of the anti-Arab sentiment I heard during the Gulf War. And we have never seemed to grasp the distinctions between a people and their rulers, hating the one for the evils or failings of the other. Hating, and usually killing them with our sanctions…
