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In reply to the discussion: The whole gun regulation debate come down to 3 words, white male privilege [View all]SQUEE
(1,320 posts)pogrom noun (Concise Encyclopedia)
Mob attack, condoned by authorities, against persons and property of a religious, racial, or national minority. The term is usually applied to attacks on Jews in Russia in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
You are going to say there were was no official programs to remove the Native Americans? To Anglicize those that were in the reservations, and send out the Cavalry to deal with the rest?
The South throughout Reconstruction, I could go on for a week.
Violence against the Chinese workers ("coolies"
on the West Coast?
How about the knee jerk violence immediately after 9/11 against Muslims, or even Sikhs and Indians in the mistaken belief they were all "Towel Heads".. The continued under class exploitation of Hispanic migrant workers and "illegal" aliens... The complete lack of media concern for inner city "black on black" crime? So, yeah forgive me if I doubt the core decency of the average American as regards to the obvious other.