@Teri_Kanefield@mastodon.social
Post #2643327
2026-02-14 17:30 UTC
Replies (7)
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@Teri_Kanefield@mastodon.social 2026-02-16 23:20
I suppose I could add this to the blog post as Exhibit A
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@kelvin0mql@mastodon.social 2026-02-14 19:45
@Teri_Kanefield@mastodon.social Fantastic "lecture"!
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@Bodling@deacon.social 2026-02-14 20:25
@Teri_Kanefield@mastodon.social Thank you. Well done. Only question at the moment is whether each of those successive immigration and naturalization acts supplemented or replaced the previous one. Or was it mixed?
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@abhayakara@mastodon.nl 2026-02-14 21:14
@Teri_Kanefield@mastodon.social I was born in 1965. Trump's generation were young adults. So I lived through this demographic shift, but TBH I didn't realize it. It actually helps me to understand why people my generation or older are so weird about this, not that that's good news. How much of the drop in white population as a percentage is down to birth rates?
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@tokensane@mastodon.me.uk 2026-02-15 07:55
@Teri_Kanefield@mastodon.social Thanks for writing this. The demographics are skewed by "one drop" theory (any non-white ancestor -> you're not white). So those numbers reflect, at least in part, mixed marriages producing children defined by society as "not-white". A "white" couple we know had a baby with distinctly negro features. Huge uproar, accusations of infidelity. DNA tests showed it *was* his, and she had an African ancestor from a century or so ago. DNA isn't a paint pot.
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@tokensane@mastodon.me.uk 2026-02-15 08:20
@Teri_Kanefield@mastodon.social I don't know if this was a factor in anti-Irish sentiment in America, but in Northern Ireland the Protestant majority has long entertained a theory that Catholics are intent on out-breeding the Protestants, and that Catholic prohibition of birth control is part of that. https://www.irishtimes.com/opinion/claim-that-protestants-are-being-outbred-is-a-myth-1.83911
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@bkoehn@hachyderm.io 2026-02-18 11:38
@Teri_Kanefield@mastodon.social Thanks for the primer. It’s uncomfortable to examine the collision/collusion of liberal democracy and racism in the US, but it’s important framing to understand what’s happening. Well done.