kirsten neilsen wrote:
> gee, tell that to the irish, who, along side the chinese, built the
> railroads in the u.s. or the poles, the italians, european jews ... all
> of these groups, and more, were racialied, considered of inferior races, etc.
But only the Chinese were used as human detonators, and it was not because they invented gunpowder.
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> [don't even try assuming that i'm arguing that these groups were more oppressed, or even as oppressed than "non-whitees." i'm simply challanging the notion that whites formed a cohesive group in the u.s.]
When it comes to dealing with nonwhites, the whites are acohesive group. You see this all over the history of the British Empire. The Irish were not treating as nonwhites in the Third World by the English. Most Indians cannot tell an Irishman from an Englishman after a century of British rule.
Henry C.K. Liu