Session #84 · 1955–57

Speech #840236263

Rapidly growing imports from Japan. added to the rest. now create a great additional threat. Now we are selling surplus cotton to Japan 25 percent below djmestic prices. If this continues. it will provide us with another fantastic. crazyquilt economic patternAmerican cotton purchased and stored with money of American taxpayers. sold at reduced prices to foreign nations. converted under sweatshop and coolie conditions into textile goods and shipped back into the United States under the terms of the Geneva agreement to compete with highstandard. highcost American labor and goods. The conclusion is inescapable that the New England textile industry under this agreement is made to bear the brunt and become the goat of the helpJapan policy now being followed at Washington: Is it wise for us to give ourselves a knockout. economic blow in order to help other nations? Yet that is just what is happening under the current policy.
Identified stereotypes
Uses 'sweatshop and coolie conditions' to describe Japanese labor practices.
Keywords matched
coolie

Classification

Target group
Sentiment
Negative
Stereotyping
⚠️ Yes
Confidence
90%
Model
gemini-2.0-flash
Framing
Economic threat

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Unknown
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Speech ID
840236263
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