Thread by @arctotherium42

Racism would've avoided this. Racists correctly observed for centuries that Chinese were as smart and hardworking as them. This was a big argument for Chinese Exclusion. Neolib retards thought you needed muh institutions (+implicit US friendliness) for complex manufacturing.

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Ignorant anti-hereditarians assume past racists must've thought the Chinese were dumb. No. Poor, ignorant, and technologically backwards, but not dumb. Both the Yellow Peril and US immigration debates hinged on the fact that Chinese could outcompete whites.

That quote is from here. 14th Amendment 100% indisputably gives birthright citizenship to kids of lawful permanent residents, but this should not apply to illegals/students/guest workers/tourists, categories that did not exist in 1866 who can abuse the system using transportation technology orders of magnitude faster, cheaper, and more reliable than existed in 1866. Just as the 2nd Amendment applies to small arms but not nuclear weapons, even though the wording says "shall not be abridged" and the given justification is interstate war, the 14th Amendment should not apply to those illegitimately present in the US, now that doing so is so much easier (and this tracks with US history; millions of Mexicans, including their US-born children, were deported by both FDR and Eisenhower and no one blinked. The recent interpretation is novel, insane, and civilization-wrecking).
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