Re: (Tears) The Collected Works of Buck Rogers in the 25th Century

On Sun, 13 Apr 2025 16:14:56 -0700, Bobbie Sellers
<bliss-sf4ever@dslextreme.com> wrote:

On 4/13/25 11:49, James Nicoll wrote:

<snippo>

However, Wilma's admirable racial tolerance does not extend to the
Han. To put it very mildly.

>
Have you heard of the Chinese Menance?  Promoted by Hearst in the
1930s and then the anti-Japanese propaganda of the 1940s.

I've always heard of it as the "Yellow Peril". But that doesn't mean
"Chinese Menace" didn't exist.

I read the comic strips whenever I could find them
and comic books as well but was in my teens at least before
I found the foundational story.
Don't fall asleep in caves or you may end up on
Mars in an alternative time line or a few or more hundred
years in a future where you must struggle against
alien invaders.  What a trope it was.
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bliss-back from 12 weeks in hospital recovering
and rehabing from ankle fusion and now severely
deconditioned.

Welcome back!
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"Here lies the Tuscan poet Aretino,
Who evil spoke of everyone but God,
Giving as his excuse, 'I never knew him.'"