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This will only affect Indians and maybe Chinese. It's time to stop pretending the Trump administration isn't racist to the core.

TheCoelacanth 9y ago
I don't know why you are being downvoted. This is essentially accurate. There may be a few other countries affected like the Philippines but no predominately white countries will be affected because their green card waiting lists are short enough that people from those countries can get a green card before the original six years expires.
cmurf 9y ago
Indians and Chinese received 82% of the H-1Bs in 2016. I don't know who's pretending the Trump isn't a racist, you have to be really deeply ignorant and incapable of rudimentary character assessment to dismiss his long history of racism: even if you just keep it to the recent history of birtherism. It is time to stop incorrectly weighting race as a factor in American politics, as if it's a solved problem, or as if it's a central problem, or as if it's an unsolvable problem. But more importantly it's time to stop pretending most Americans aren't racist, or that the problem is getting better with Xers and Millenials. Ignoring the depth of racism in the country is how people draw the wrong conclusion that Trump is some kind of black swan event. As well as the very specious idea that this gets better with Millennials. The American National Election Studies, the long-running, extensive poll of American voters, asked voters in 2012 a basic test of prejudice: to rank black and white people on a scale from hardworking to lazy and from intelligent to unintelligent. The researchers found that 62 percent of white people gave black people a lower score in at least one of the attributes. https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/clinton-wasnt-wrong-about-the-deplorables-among-trumps-supporters/2016/09/12/93720264-7932-11e6-beac-57a4a412e93a_story.html https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/clinton-wasnt-wrong-... https://www.thecut.com/2015/01/millennials-are-less-tolerant-than-you-think.html https://www.thecut.com/2015/01/millennials-are-less-tolerant...

TheCoelacanth 9y ago

I don't know why you are being downvoted. This is essentially accurate. There may be a few other countries affected like the Philippines but no predominately white countries will be affected because their green card waiting lists are short enough that people from those countries can get a green card before the original six years expires.

cmurf 9y ago

Indians and Chinese received 82% of the H-1Bs in 2016. I don't know who's pretending the Trump isn't a racist, you have to be really deeply ignorant and incapable of rudimentary character assessment to dismiss his long history of racism: even if you just keep it to the recent history of birtherism. It is time to stop incorrectly weighting race as a factor in American politics, as if it's a solved problem, or as if it's a central problem, or as if it's an unsolvable problem. But more importantly it's time to stop pretending most Americans aren't racist, or that the problem is getting better with Xers and Millenials. Ignoring the depth of racism in the country is how people draw the wrong conclusion that Trump is some kind of black swan event. As well as the very specious idea that this gets better with Millennials. The American National Election Studies, the long-running, extensive poll of American voters, asked voters in 2012 a basic test of prejudice: to rank black and white people on a scale from hardworking to lazy and from intelligent to unintelligent. The researchers found that 62 percent of white people gave black people a lower score in at least one of the attributes. https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/clinton-wasnt-wrong-about-the-deplorables-among-trumps-supporters/2016/09/12/93720264-7932-11e6-beac-57a4a412e93a_story.html https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/clinton-wasnt-wrong-... https://www.thecut.com/2015/01/millennials-are-less-tolerant-than-you-think.html https://www.thecut.com/2015/01/millennials-are-less-tolerant...