I guess someone could try explaining what the benefit of refusing to grant citizenship to a group that statistically outperforms children of US citizens in terms of academic performance and income.
You answered the question right here. Racist assholes need to feel superior from their every day crap lives so "being brown" is bad and no matter what, being white is better than being brown regardless of status. tldr: it riles up the dummies and scores political points.
The audience should note that #blueanon academic administrators at various elite institutions have very openly introduced policies that quite clearly make it vastly more difficult for certain people of color to gain entry into (insert elite university here) because those #blueanon admins are jealous that said brown person population typically outperform their more preferred skin pigmentation(s).
Listen, Dax, the USA needs gardeners, roofers and maids too, just like we used to need cotton pickers.
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It’s just the inverse of the reductionist garbage Stupid Fitz constantly spews in the pit. There is truth to both statements at the fringes that doesn’t apply to most people involved.
Of the two groups (disenfranchised working-class Americans, and biz types who see people as little more than human capital), I know which on I sympathize with more.