Some Schmo wrote: ↑Thu Jun 10, 2021 5:46 pm
honorentheos wrote: ↑Thu Jun 10, 2021 4:36 pm
There are also those who see the gap between reality and the ideal and decide, “F” it there's nothing to be done, let's burn the world down. Those people are damned assholes.
Um... ok. Not sure what that has to do with the thread, but yeah, I suppose.
It seems you’re overly attached to the notion that POC can’t get a fair shake due to systemic realities, namely the trans-Atlantic slave trade. However,if you look at the Hart-Cellar Act of 1965, and the subsequent dozen or so immigration and naturalization acts passed since then the Browning of America has pushed ‘whitness’ down from, I dunno, 85% back in the 80’s to ~56% now (numbers jump around a bit depending on the source you use). Tens of millions of non-Western European immigrants have come to America, and continue to do so, because our Ben and Jerry’s Poo Tracks ice cream is much more preferable to their countries’ Pints of Poo. Hispanic immigration is bananas, as is Asian (Near, Far, Middle, and Southeast), African, and everything in between. That’s a whole lotta people who view this country, rightly, as a land of opportunity
because their own lands offer little chance for them or their 2nd and 3rd gen descendants upward mobility.
I still maintain if we were to go open borders we’d have a billion people here within 10-20 years. That’s what Honor is getting at. People
believe in America, even if ‘native born’ Americans ha e become jaded and cynical.
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