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Including white lyching? "scholarly consensus" is that it was racism?

• foldr 4y ago
  >Including white lychings? "scholarly consensus" is that it was racism? Actually yes, in many cases. 'White' in these stats often includes Jews, Italians and other groups who also suffered from discrimination based on their ethnicity. The category 'white' has not remained constant over the past 200 years. You can certainly find scholarly treatments of this point if you look on Google scholar.
  • Chris2048 4y ago
    > You can certainly find scholarly treatments of this point if you look on Google scholar. Have you done so to sources your own statements?
    • foldr 4y ago
      https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/social-science-history/article/lynching-of-italians-and-the-rise-of-antilynching-politics-in-the-united-states/5FCDECA4F388248230435DACAB90E207 https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/social-science-histo...
      • Chris2048 4y ago
        Found the same thing googling myself. Posting a link rather than quoting the relevant parts make me think that's all you did, once I called you on it. Should you be held to the same high standard?: > take on the best existing scholarship on the subject and give references to support their arguments You essentially put the burden on me to figure out how this document supports your argument - that the majority of white lynching (in some unspecified time period) where racially motivated. I've also found quite a few that argue white lynching were motivated by support for progressive racial causes, but yet to find concrete statistics/evidence supporting that conclusion either.