And you are lynching Negroes
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And you are lynching Negroes
"And you are lynching Negroes" (Russian: А у вас негров линчуют, translit. A u vas negrov linchuyut; "but at your place Negroes are being lynched") is an anecdotal counter-argument, which, according to a joke, was used in an argument with an American by a Soviet man.[1] The phrase refers to the racial discrimination and lynching in the United States.[2]
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Origin
The use of the phrase as a reference to demagoguery and hypocrisy is traced to a Russian political joke, about a dispute between an American and a Soviet man.[3] There were numerous versions of the quip. In a 1962 version, an American and a Soviet car salesmen argue which country makes better cars. Finally, the American asks: "How many decades does it take from an average Soviet man to work, to gain enough to buy Soviet car?" After a thoughtful pause, the Soviet replies: "And you are lynching Negroes!"[4]
Variants
Similar phrases are used in the languages of Eastern Europe, in different variants.
- Polish: A u was Murzynów biją![5] (Literally, "And at your place, they beat up Negroes!")
- Czech: A vy zase bijete černochy![6] (Literally, "And you beat up blacks, on the contrary!")
- Hungarian: Amerikában (pedig) verik a négereket (Literally, "And in America, they beat up negroes")[7]
See also
- Tu quoque
- Human Rights Record of the United States, a document issued by the Communist government of China, referencing in the introduction US Country Reports on Human Rights Practices on China and "prepared to urge the United States to face up to its own human rights issues"[8]
References
- ^ (Russian) "Your Letters", at Radio Liberty
- ^ Interview with a Soviet emigrant Bloom Southwest Jewish Archives University of Arizona
- ^ (Russian) "Your Letters", at Radio Liberty
- ^ Dora Shturman, Sergei Tiktin (1985) "Sovetskii Soiuz v zerkale politicheskogo anekdota" ("Soviet Union in the Mirror of the Political Joke"), Overseas Publications Interchange Ltd., London, ISBN 0-903868-62-8, p. 58 (Russian)
- ^ "Gdzie Murzynów biją albo racjonalizm na cenzurowanym" (Polish)
- ^ "Nepoučitelný Topolánek" (Czech)
- ^ "A pragmatikus szocializmus évtizedei"(Hungarian)
- ^ Introduction // Full Text of Human Rights Record of the United States in 2010 Information Office of the State Council
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