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kristopoloustoday at 4:28 PM1 replyview on HN

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


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zeroonetwothreetoday at 4:32 PM

Technically Jim Crow was mostly state laws.

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