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Encouraging that an Asian can be at the forefront of forgiveness for Wison, because the man was such a complete racist. For example:Those who wish to ignore the bad are as bodecea writes "intellectually lazy."
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“In the matter of Chinese and Japanese coolie immigration, I stand for the national policy of exclusion. We cannot make a homogenous population out of people who do not blend with the Caucasian race…Oriental Coolieism will give us another race problem to solve and surely we have had our lesson.”
Yike.
I'm not sure I've ever even heard the word "Coolieism" before.
I think Emily's point is how Princeton deals with Wilson as regards his legacy with the University and the implications on whitewashing or rewriting history. That works two ways of course -- Wilson's legacy has arguably been unduly sanitized in the history books in the 95 years since he left the scene. But that's the place to do the repair -- the history books.
It was a term used to imply imported cheap labor, and was specific to Asiatics.
Not sure if they had a similar term for the Irish, although in some circles they were just as despised as the Asians.
Yes, and I originally heard the term used for Indians (in India, not immigrants) by the Brits, always a connotation of subservience. But this was the first time I'd ever seen the word transmogrified into an -ism -- as if it were, I dunno, some kind of ideology.