I've been reading some interesting reflections on this.
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Replying to @CurtisLillie @bwcard and
One common answer: nothing. We view poor whites different than poor minorities.
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We think poor whites shouldn't need help. Just need to make better decisions. Poor minorities need saving.
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Replying to @CurtisLillie @bwcard and
And since white people have historically believed brown and black people need whites to save them...
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We probably would have done nothing. Or so the argument goes...
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that same group decried "handouts" for minority groups experiencing the same.
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argument I read suggested this is how economics/class got weaponized...
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Replying to @CurtisLillie @bwcard and
tell poor whites that black and brown people and illegal immigrants are getting what should be yours
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seems plausible, but this is a very old strategy. 1920s populism, similar to today, pit white working
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Replying to @bwcard @CurtisLillie and
class against cheap immigrant labor, ironically largely Chinese. Republic survived, we will again.
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1870s and 1880s (during the Gilded Age), not 1920s. Exclusion act was 1882.
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right. My bad
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