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Nowhere near it. There's parts I don't like but it's not like Homesteading, slavery, Chinese exclusion, redlining, Japanese internment, the klan, and Jim Crow w

Nowhere near it. There's parts I don't like but it's not like Homesteading, slavery, Chinese exclusion, redlining, Japanese internment, the klan, and Jim Crow were great. This is American behavior: crude, cruel, hostile, arrogant, and proudly ignorant. Richard Hofstadter wrote about Americans acting this way in the 1960s. Look at the Johnson-Reed Act of 1924, stood for decades. It's not like those sentiments went away... And there's no "good states" either - the California Constitution in 1879 set up a racial apartheid system against Chinese people. Even had a second called "The Chinese". Oregon was admitted to the Union explicitly with a "whites only" clause. The Declaration of Independence even has wild conspiracy theories about "merciless Indian savages" No amount of empirical evidence will make Americans realize this because it gives them a frowny face. So anyways no. This is all business as usual

zeroonetwothree 6mo ago
Technically Jim Crow was mostly state laws.
- kristopolous 6mo ago
  The point is there's this false narrative about a dichotomy of bad and good America where people like to claim they're from the good part... The history doesn't really bare that out and the peculator American prejudice seems to simply retarget more often than recede. The largest mass lynching, for instance, was against Italians. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1891_New_Orleans_lynchings https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1891_New_Orleans_lynchings Anti Irish riots? Sure what about Philadelphia : https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philadelphia_nativist_riots https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philadelphia_nativist_riots This history is everywhere in the USA. Or look at the Bronx in the 1970s or Tulsa in 1921. We didn't need bombs to drop on our cities from an adversary - we did it to ourselves So when people say "is this American society breaking down?" I say "no. This is simply American society"

zeroonetwothree 6mo ago

Technically Jim Crow was mostly state laws.

kristopolous 6mo ago
The point is there's this false narrative about a dichotomy of bad and good America where people like to claim they're from the good part... The history doesn't really bare that out and the peculator American prejudice seems to simply retarget more often than recede. The largest mass lynching, for instance, was against Italians. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1891_New_Orleans_lynchings https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1891_New_Orleans_lynchings Anti Irish riots? Sure what about Philadelphia : https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philadelphia_nativist_riots https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philadelphia_nativist_riots This history is everywhere in the USA. Or look at the Bronx in the 1970s or Tulsa in 1921. We didn't need bombs to drop on our cities from an adversary - we did it to ourselves So when people say "is this American society breaking down?" I say "no. This is simply American society"