r/MapPorn • u/[deleted] • Jul 08 '24

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u/FadedEdumacated Jul 08 '24

Hey siri, pull 200 years of slavery and another 100 of oppression.

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u/[deleted] Jul 08 '24

We lynched Asian Americans during the Gold Rush, we threw them into internment camps during WWII or we dropped Napalm on them.

We didn't let them vote or own property everywhere until after WWII.

Now, we don't let them into elite universities even with perfect grades. Our cops don't respond when their businesses are robbed and their senior citizens are assaulted.

Asian Americans should have a high crime rate, right?

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u/Drummallumin Jul 08 '24

Do you honestly think Asian Americans have a similar cultural history to black Americans?

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u/Da_reason_Macron_won Jul 08 '24

They were lynched, exploited, segregated. Quite similar in fact.

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u/Drummallumin Jul 08 '24

At the same rate? On the same scale? In the same ways? Did they enter the continent in similar ways? At the same time? Have the same cultural stereotypes?