Misplaced Pages

This is an old revision of this page, as edited by Skywriter (talk | contribs) at 22:13, 1 April 2009 (Do NOT remove resource material. While you may think lynching black people is a joke, it is fact. Take it to the talk page.). The present address (URL) is a permanent link to this revision, which may differ significantly from the current revision.

"And you are lynching Negroes" (Template:Lang-ru; literally but at your lynching negroes) is a phrase known in several Eastern European and Southeast European countries (see below) referring to the use of the rhetorical device known as Tu quoque ("You, too") in political contexts.

The image of mobs in the United States lynching African American citizens is part of the history of the United States.[Historian Leon Litwack and Rep.John Lewis have written extensively about the history of lynching in the United States.

The use of the phrase is traced to a Russian joke from the times of Nikita Khrushchev, about a dispute between an American and a Russian. There were several versions of the joke; one version from 1962 goes as follows: "The Voice of America asks the Soviet radio: 'Is it true that your shops are empty?' In three days the reply is given: And you are lynching negroes."

Variants

Similar phrases are used in various languages of Eastern Europe, in different variants, often in reference to different jokes, albeit with the same idea.

• Template:Lang-sr
• Template:Lang-hr (Literally, "And what do you do to Negroes?")
• Template:Lang-pl (Literally, "And at your place, they beat up Negroes!")
• Template:Lang-cs
• Template:Lang-sk
• Template:Lang-hu (Literally, "And in America, they are beating up negroes")
• Template:Lang-bg (Literally, "And why do you beat the Negroes?")
• Template:Lang-bs
• Template:Lang-sl

See also

• Soviet propaganda

References

1. Interview with a Soviet emigrant
2. "СССР в мировом сообществе: от старого мышления к новому", Progress Publishers, 1990 p. 487 Template:Ru icon
3. Template:Ru icon "Your Letters", at Radio Liberty
4. Dora Shturman, Sergei Tiktin (1985) "Sovetskii Soiuz v zerkale politicheskogo anekdota" ("Soviet Union in the Mirror of the Politicial Joke"), Overseas Publications Interchange Ltd., London, ISBN 0903868628, p. 58 Template:Ru icon
5. ^ A record of a session of Bulgarian parliament Template:Bg icon
6. "Gdzie Murzynów biją albo racjonalizm na cenzurowanym" Template:Pl icon
7. "Nepoučitelný Topolánek" Template:Cs icon
8. "A pragmatikus szocializmus évtizedei"Template:Hu icon

• Lynching in the United States
• Political slogans
• Propaganda of the Soviet Union
• Racially motivated violence against African Americans
• Soviet phraseology