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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Asians haven't suffered brutal acts of repression in the United States?

[url]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rock_Springs_massacre[/url]
[url]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Los_Angeles_Chinese_massacre_of_1871[/url]
[url]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hells_Canyon_Massacre[/url]
[url]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seattle_riot_of_1886[/url]
[url]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Attack_on_Squak_Valley_Chinese_laborers,_1885[/url]
[url]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tacoma_riot_of_1885[/url]
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Wow okay so you want to go tit for tat on what happened when..... so do you want a timeline starting from the 1800s is that our baseline?

Should we keep within the last 50 years 100 years? Are we going to talk about one-on-one Acts or like government-sponsored Acts?

I can't take you seriously when you talk about a bunch of white miners riding against Chinese miners over 200 years ago. I am literally talking about laws and systematic oppression and state sponsored acts. Because the deal with state sponsored acts is that it goes all the way from the top down to the bottom it's not just about some lowly white Hicks committing acts of violence. There's a difference between turning a blind eye to acts of aggression/retaliation/violence (which is not ok) and actually sponsoring it. [/quote]

So you're saying that because the Chinese were not brought here in large numbers before the 1860s (many of whom came in conditions that would be considered debt bondage or forced labor) today, their sufferings don't count?  And, in terms of government action, what about the Chinese Exclusion Act?  Chinese are the ONLY race to have ever been specifically barred from immigrating to the U.S.  If that isn't government-sponsored racism, I don't know what is.[/quote]

I think there's a point where you have to understand that bringing up a state-sponsored act from 200 years ago minimizes the validity of your argument when in the 200 years that have passed since then it has literally been nonstop state sponsored acts against blacks and indigenous people. You're talking about lynchings from the 1800s. The last recorded lynching of a black man was in the seventies... 1970s. Their sufferings absolutely count this isn't about being counted and to say that I'm stating such is really arguing in bad faith. Every single immigrant population in the United States has experienced some form of discrimination or racism. Italian Americans Germans Jews Chinese Hispanics. I don't discount their experiences but when you continue to talk about something that happened 240 years ago  but aren't willing to see that the injustices against black people are still ongoing when it comes to well pick .... Housing medical treatment salary crime.....

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