US signals intention to rethink job H-1B lottery

Re:US signals intention to rethink job H-1B lottery by like_any_other on Sunday July 20, 2025 @02:27PM (#44627885)

It was certainly not the vision of the founders: Among the Romans emancipation required but one effort. The slave, when made free, might mix with, without staining the blood of his master. But with us a second is necessary, unknown to history. When freed, he is to be removed beyond the reach of mixture. - Thomas Jefferson [1]

Even the lauded Abraham Lincoln advocated for the removal of freed Blacks, and made several attempts at it [2], and in the Douglas-Lincoln debates said: I am not nor ever have been in favor of making voters or jurors of negroes, nor of qualifying them to hold oﬃce, nor to intermarry with white people; and I will say in addition to this that there is a physical difference between the white and black races which I believe will for ever forbid the two races living together on terms of social and political equality. [3]

(His opponent, Stephen Douglas, was even more opposed to the idea.)

[1] https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/aia/part3/3h490t.html

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abraham_Lincoln_and_slavery#Co...

[3] Basler, The Collected Works of Abraham Lincoln, Vol. II, pp. 235-236

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Re:US signals intention to rethink job H-1B lottery by epistasis on Sunday July 20, 2025 @02:56PM (#44628185)

I agree. But perhaps where we differ is that I don't think America is not a constant set of ideas, to establish an unchanging status quo. But rather the one constant in America is a vision for a different and better future than the present or past. And this is what MAGA is fighting against. MAGA is a vision for regression towards less equality, more hierarchy, and less universal freedom.

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