also equating chattel slavery and indentured servitude of groups considered white now.... polish/german/italian experiences have radically different contexts and histories jesus
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Not to mention Red Lining & Jim Crow. My parents grew up when that shit was still happening
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Zero research done before spouting off. You know, I'm beginning to suspect that this might not be a real university...
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"Discrimination against Germans" *gestures toward the German-American Bund which was made up of German nationals who literally wave the Nazi flag alongside the US flag and who were not interned*
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"We shouldn't do reparations because we have been shitty to a lot of people" is certainly quite the argument. Also, indentured servitude was how you worked off a debt? And "anti Polish sentiment" is not quite the same as generarional poverty.
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And there was discrimination against Germans during WW2. My grandmother had an FBI agent pound on their door and questioned her parents if they were enemy spies because they had subscribed to a German language newsletter. But at least she wasn't in an internment camp.
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Because they are right wingers.
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Very unfair of you. Prager U shouldn't be judged based on what the historians and other nerds uncover in primary and secondary sources. Prager U should be championed for accurately affirming its fans' and funders' whims, feelings, and impressions.
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They always have to play the 'what aboutism' card.
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Hmmm what reperations are they gonna give tho. I'm confused as to what you all want from the government.
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