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ancianita

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4. That's just a recent version of US history you've been presented with.
Wed Jun 11, 2025, 08:29 PM
Jun 11

Read Jill Lepore's This America, which lays out all the founders' quotes about America being an asylum and sanctuary for all comers. She explains how we came up with concepts like "exceptionalism" and "nation state" and other terms that relate to immigration, along with the more accurate history of immigration.

The Immigration Act of 1924 was the culmination of racist culture that's been the original sin of this country (and other countries, too, though that doesn't excuse our current iteration of that sin of slavery and now racism).

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