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Re:White House announces 25 percent tariff on Chinese tech g... by abiox on Friday June 15, 2018 @06:01PM (#17324000)
> If you really cared about Chinese people you'd let them in when they asked to immigrate here.

this seems to have an a lot packed in. it's not clear how advocating the departure of a minuscule amount of people from china is "helping chinese people" or otherwise demonstrating "care for chinese people".

> Stop pretending. Learn your history. > https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinese_Exclusion_Act

this seems to be getting really off the rails. this was repealed in the 40s. what's the relevance?

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Re:White House announces 25 percent tariff on Chinese tech g... by omegaworks on Sunday June 17, 2018 @03:34AM (#17331317)
It was the first of any American immigration laws to mention any nationality by name. The laws that replaced it subject countries like China to quotas that continue to unfairly restrict migration.

These restrictive laws have roots in the same petty nationalism that fuels protectionist subsudies.

These laws prevent kids - the kids that you claim to care about - from having a better future elsewhere.

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