1. @InklessPW has very sharp column rebuking some historically ignorant comments from Canada's Immigration Minister: http://www.macleans.ca/politics/ottawa/another-chris-alexander-heritage-minute/ …
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@InklessPW makes mincemeat out of@calxandr, showing how racist laws were bi-partisan, pushed by both Conservatives & Liberals.1 reply 5 retweets 7 likes -
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6. The mistake here is not so much a lie as a half-truth: of course Democrats & Liberals were racist in an overwhelmingly racist society.
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7. White Supremacy wasn't universal but did encompass most of the major political formations: liberalism, conservatism, social democracy,
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8. To get outside the racist consensus you'd have to go to marginalized political groups (anarchists, communists, & people like Du Bois).
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9. So, the fundamental mistake is that viewing historical racism through present day partisan lens makes no sense.
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10. There is one area where past partisan divisions were salient on race: not anti-racism but question of who is white?
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11. Are Catholic immigrants white? Are Jews white? In Canadian debate in past, that's where party lines became relevant.
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