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Re:It's Time to Act – A Response to Marc Andreessen by joaomacp on Monday April 20, 2020 @03:55AM (#22922017)
The most common meaning of "racism" in conversation is "acting based on the race of some person / group of people".

Immigration policies can (should) be discussed without taking into account people's race, and still lead to racially-biased outcomes, simply because the majority of immigration-seekers have a race that's different from the majority of people in the target country.

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Re:It's Time to Act – A Response to Marc Andreessen by drapred7 on Monday April 20, 2020 @05:08AM (#22922300)
What's your opinion on Israel only allowing ethnic jews to immigrate? That would meet your definition of racism.
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Re:It's Time to Act – A Response to Marc Andreessen by viklove on Tuesday April 21, 2020 @01:50PM (#22937386)
It is racism, textbook racism. They're deciding who to let in based solely on race, that makes it racist...
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Re:It's Time to Act – A Response to Marc Andreessen by xupybd on Wednesday April 22, 2020 @05:37AM (#22943786)
If that were true I'd agree that is racism.

I don't think this is the case. I don't think the US bases immigration policy even partially on race.

Some nations leaders are a threat and their people are going to have a harder time but that is not a race issue. For example a North Korean would have a harder time than a South Korean yet they are the same race.

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