Jeet, do you think this was causative?
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Replying to @Noahpinion @fmbutt and
No, because I think immigration rate less important than the social option available once people were in USA.
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OK, new question: Do you think that without Jim Crow, redlining, etc., immigrants to America would have been worse off on average?
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Replying to @Noahpinion @fmbutt and
In a racist society, racism provides material social benefit for whites (including groups that become white after immigration process).
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Replying to @HeerJeet @Noahpinion and
In a truly hidebound racist society no non native immigrant could ever become native. There are many examples of such deep racist societies.
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Replying to @fmbutt @Noahpinion and
American racism is specifically structured around anti-Blackness. That's the predicate that allows non-Black groups to rise.
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Anti-Asian racism was pretty potent until after WWII. The Japanese internment comes to mind.
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Replying to @Noahpinion @HeerJeet and
Not to mention, of course, the very overtly racist anti-Japanese WWII propaganda...
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Sure, but it's telling that when America needed a "model minority" to pick on Blacks, status of Asians improved: https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/wonk/wp/2016/11/29/the-real-reason-americans-stopped-spitting-on-asian-americans-and-started-praising-them/?utm_term=.e99e2ee5a8f5 …
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