Discussion about this post

User's avatar
Jreads's avatar

I don’t know enough about economics or Canada to say what’s true or what’s not about their gold, but the racism in these comments is disappointing and just proves your point. I’m from Minnesota and can see parallels in your post. Despite having a reputation for being nice — which manifests itself in passive rather than overt aggression — the achievement gap between whites and blacks is one of the greatest in the country. The largest mass execution in American history also took place here, perpetrated against the native Dakota. Despite its liberal reputation, Minneapolis has tried to address its problems through corporatization, and these internal contradictions have turned the state into a warzone. The CEO of UnitedHealthcare who was shot dead by Luigi lived here, and Vance Boelter shot multiple Democrats before being captured in a manhunt.

I worked an almost minimum wage job in retail for much of the past year, and anyone who truly cared for their community would be able to see that the middle class only lives comfortably off the backs of wage slaves. But who cares? They’re mostly black people. As long as you don’t go to Brooklyn Center it’s fine. And then the same people who believe capitalism to be a just meritocracy also believe that when Indians get rich here, it’s because they’re “compliant and manipulative.” American conservatives would rather blame the minorities we imported on slave ships or drove here through foreign intervention than look in the mirror to see that they’re too lazy to address our problems and too weak to handle proximity to melanin on the streets.

Expand full comment
QQ's avatar

Prof, compare Indians with Jews is a huge mistake. Jews in general achieved a lot across science, business, politics and religion (with only 15 million people world wide). What did indians achieve in history? It's not comparable and not even close.

More and more indians left india and flood into NA, Australia because india as a country becomes worst and worst every year. Remember it's a 3rd world ghetto. Some indians achieved "success" in western world, but only limited to administrative area such as corp CEOs, middle managers etc. That's not a true achievement, it's a bureaucracy system nature - whoever is more compliant and manipulative win.

Expand full comment
44 more comments...

No posts