That third cartoon (the men in the barrels) was actually an attack against immigrants from Germany.
Yeah but that's an Irishman with a sheleighly on the left.
Thomas Nast was such a piece of shit. He basically hated Italians, German, Irish, black, Chinese... And his heirs have really buried half of his work unless you're really looking for it. Dr Seuss is the same way.
It is a pretty weird commentary on race though because half of the races that he hated so much and weren't considered part of the white race back then are like top-tier white now. Like I don't think anybody is going to argue that German and Irish people aren't White
I know it's a little different in the Dr Seuss situation because he was tapped by the feds to make anti-japanese war propaganda but still... Jesus Christ:
Reason: Another thing I think is funny about race is up until about the 1950s, Mexicans were considered white on the government census
