I’ll be the bad guy. Yes, those laws are racist and ethnocentric. There was a belief that Western Europeans created a society and a Republic worth emulating. The folks that wrote those laws felt like it was worth preserving, and the way to do that is to maintain a population with similar characteristics.You don’t know what you’re talking about. Those traditional “rational” characteristics like barring people from the Asiatic zone, creating a quota system that set limits to the number of immigrants allowed in to 3% of the foreign born population from each nationality, that were living in the US with exceptions for the Western hemisphere, and literacy. They codified into law the racism that existed in that time period. These laws were meant to preserve the majority white population. Later there were some changes, but no doubt in anyone’s mind that many of these “rational” characteristics still remain or at least the intentions to this day.
I’ll be the bad guy. Yes, those laws are racist and ethnocentric. There was a belief that Western Europeans created a society and a Republic worth emulating. The folks that wrote those laws felt like it was worth preserving, and the way to do that is to maintain a population with similar characteristics.
Apparently there was something to that Western Civilization thing, because every poor soul seeking to better their station in life wanted to take part in it.
Once that common background has been sufficiently diluted, the whole begins to reflect the incoming participants’ culture more and more. So, we are in the process of becoming the culture that those people fled.
Not too hard to do the math on that.
You’re conflating legal immigration with illegal immigration, which is a political tactic that leftists like to use.
My take is I support legal & orderly immigration based on numbers we can support. We need to know the identity & health history & criminal history of everyone wanting to come here. The border should be closed except for the legal ports of entry. That’s not dehumanizing, that’s maintaining the safety of a sovereign nation.
edit: I reserve the right to dehumanize the gang members & criminals who sneak across & murder our citizens.
Lots of bones to pick here. I'll start with your equating literacy to racism. Where is the logic in that?
I guess that you are among the rational people seeing hatred in others. I see the hatred in you of those other people who you consider not to be rational.
People who come here to work enter through the gates, not wade across a river or through razor wire, etc.
I'll hand it to you, though. You do know your leftist agenda.
Woody
I know little of that specific history, but based solely on your description...the purpose of such practices may be simply more practical in nature, than racist.Have you ever heard of a literacy test? Do you know the history of literacy tests and voting? How they were used against blacks and others that had little access to education to prevent them from being able to vote? Do you know that whites were exempted from literacy tests or given easier tests? How literacy tests were used to exclude people from immigrating? That’s not leftist agenda. It’s ****** history.
Literacy tests? Yes. I took one when I joined the Navy back in '66. As for the voting aspects related to literacy tests, yes, I've heard of them. Same as having to be a property owner to vote, and poll taxes, too.. That's all in the past, thankfully. So, here we are in the present where all those ignorant policies are kaput.Have you ever heard of a literacy test? Do you know the history of literacy tests and voting? How they were used against blacks and others that had little access to education to prevent them from being able to vote? Do you know that whites were exempted from literacy tests or given easier tests? How literacy tests were used to exclude people from immigrating? That’s not leftist agenda. It’s ****** history.
Amen.You’re conflating legal immigration with illegal immigration, which is a political tactic that leftists like to use.
My take is I support legal & orderly immigration based on numbers we can support. We need to know the identity & health history & criminal history of everyone wanting to come here. The border should be closed except for the legal ports of entry. That’s not dehumanizing, that’s maintaining the safety of a sovereign nation.
edit: I reserve the right to dehumanize the gang members & criminals who sneak across & murder our citizens.
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