Also: "[British King] has endeavoured to prevent the population of these States; for that purpose obstructing the Laws for Naturalization of Foreigners; refusing to pass others to encourage their migrations hither"
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Replying to @RokoMijic @CovfefeAnon and
This is civic nationalism straight from the declaration of independence. I admit that the race equality thing is ahistorical though. In the 1780s it was self-evident to people that different races were very, very different.
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Replying to @RokoMijic @RokoMijicUK and
Yeah, they only believed in allowing in people who were genetically very close to them. Franklin argued strenuously against even allowing the swarthy Germans in. Benjamin Franklin: smarter than every single elite ruling us today.
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Replying to @17cShyteposter @CovfefeAnon and
What was his problem with Germans?
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Replying to @17cShyteposter @CovfefeAnon and
Swedes weren't white enough in 1750

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Ben Franklin - physicist, investor, author and publisher, founder of numerous civic institutions, also the Hakkan microracism expert of his day
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