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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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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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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Not to mention, of course, the very overtly racist anti-Japanese WWII propaganda...
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Nobody is saying there wasn't racism against other groups, just that anti-Black racism is primordial structure. I think that's obvious
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I'd like an operational definition for "primordial" here...
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