• agitatedpotato@lemmy.world
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      In a country built by slave labor this is the most egregious example of institutionalize racism? Not the slavery? Or the time we took Japanese people and put them in camps?

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      I’d argue the whole “you can’t enslave black people unless you accuse them of a crime first” is much more eggregious but go off I guess.

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        “But this one affected ‘Asians’! Oh, and white people, but that’s totally not what we’re focusing on.” - these people