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Comment by ElProlactin

Do you even educate yourself about the things you post about?

Take https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foreign_Miners%27_Tax_Act_of_1....

This is an example of the type of law that was passed during your "good vibes" period that was designed to push out non-white labor.

So the point that you don't want to seem to acknowledge: the period of time that you seem to be holding up as an ideal (read: where Americans could work hard and get ahead) was filled with laws and even violence that sought to restrict opportunity for non-whites and women.

This is historical fact, whether you like it or not.

> At the end of the day most of those downtrodden minorities you think you care about ultimately wound up creating successful ethnic communities, before we adopted, at the behest of people like you, central policy that dismantled them starting in the mid 20th century.

What in the world are you on?

But this is the perfect example of America today: you can't have a vigorous debate without somebody resorting to casting aspersions on another's intentions and blaming them for things that happened when they weren't even alive.

parent ElProlactin 2 months ago

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