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by bmakdbd 1698 days ago
> Which race?

Are you actually serious? You don’t know which race the US discriminated against in the past 100 years?

The answer is black people aka African-Americans (as well as Chinese but that’s just outside the 100 years) [1]

You do realise that black people did not have freedom of speech for almost all of America’s history?

The idea that America is some bastion of free speech is utter nonsense, when you consider that a significant portion of its population was denied this (and much more) based only on the colour of their skin.

I mean if you think about for most of America’s history it’s been a literal fascist state.

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinese_Exclusion_Act

1 comments

Are you actually serious? You don’t know which race the US discriminated against in the past 100 years?

Japanese people.

Who got their expensive real estate in places like Santa Monica seized during WW2 and were placed in camps?

Are you actually serious? You don’t know which race the US discriminated against in the past 100 years?

Native Americans.

Who stole pretty much all of their land, sent them on death marches [1] and kept them out of politics with discriminatory policies?

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trail_of_Tears

How can you be taken seriously if your idea of 100 years different from everyone else's?
Ah yes forgot about the 100 years lol.