And now, for some good olde tymey racism/xenophobia.

[albear.livejournal.com]

Comments

[suchakiller.livejournal.com]

Hey dude.
I don't think you should poke/scrape dust of that huge machine gun while he is firing it.

[christhawk.livejournal.com]

I don't know - with the exception of the term "Jap", that's a pretty respectful ad text! (And the quote is accurate.) I'm impressed, Mr. Grapefruit Juice Copywriter!

[luke-russell.livejournal.com]

And we WERE attacked and at war! A little derision of the enemy is in order, me thinks!!

[tamburlaine.livejournal.com]

This ad was probably pretty effective, to be honest.

[murakozi.livejournal.com]

Tom: *points* Um, Frank, the Japanese planes are over there

Frank: Goddam seagull! I'll teach you to poop on the Jeep right after I washed it!

[crabofdoom.livejournal.com]

The artist could've gone on to a lucrative career in illustrating romance novel covers after the war. I hope they did. That's some pretty realistic yet awesome beefcake going on.

[suzycat.livejournal.com]

War artists were really awesomely talented people.

[margokennedy.livejournal.com]

hmmm

[weekendpbs.livejournal.com]

The only fat soldiers I've seen from WWII were in cinematic comedies.

[angstzeit.livejournal.com]

I don't think it's xenophobia when the foreign people in question attacked your country.

[lexixanatos487.livejournal.com]

iawtc

[luke-russell.livejournal.com]

Yes, it WAS intended as a slur. To deride your enemy after being attacked is only human and I fully understand. Perfectly reasonable...we were AT WAR.

[wonderwonder.livejournal.com]

yeah, but what this ad is doing is deriding the japanese as a race because a group of their government officials bombed pearl harbor. that is not reasonable. that's the sort of ideology- that anyone who's of japanese blood is inherently bad- that spearheaded internment camps. nowadays we [try to] make the distinction between the government and the people living under that government's rule. (remember when the rest of the world hated all americans because of our president, and we kept trying to show the world that we were not all GWB?) we don't conflate "the enemy" with the citizens, which is what this ad xenophobically does.

[wonderwonder.livejournal.com]

right, it's not xenophobic at all to implicate an entire race for the actions of a select few. not at all.

[bernthewitch.livejournal.com]

I know some academics who would disagree with this.

[cory-nickolatos.livejournal.com]

That ad would have to be pornographic to get me to buy grapefruit juice... blehhh...