Syrian and other “asiatics” were determined not to be white for naturalization around 1910. Like a lot of ppl from middle eastern countries were declared not white in some prerequisite cases
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But the Syriacs won their case eventually? They had a 3 wins, then the 1910-3 losses, then ultimately winning in Dow vs US in 1915. It was hotly debated, for sure--and again, separate from social whiteness, which Jews and Syriacs definitely didn't have in the 1910's
yeah, and US citizens got deported in operation w**back. I'm sure the administration will do some really bad things to some Jews they don't like, just sort of off the record.
And given their ordering of targets, they'll take me out as a lefty academic far before they get to me as a secular Jew.
FWIW, I think that this iteration of fascism is powered by a different kind of racism than nazism was (though there are still nazis within this fascist movement). Basically, whereas Nazis were strong race essentialists, such that you couldn't be "in" without the right kind of blood, I see these
guys more as apartheid white nationalists who have a stereotype-based racism, with the normative exemplar being a white cishet Christian male patriarch. Often this is a difference w/o a distinction, but here it means they target people in a different order. Their primary targets right now are
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And given their ordering of targets, they'll take me out as a lefty academic far before they get to me as a secular Jew.