Matthew Yglesias

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Matthew Yglesias @mattyglesias

Back in the 1940s and 1950s, my grandfathers (one Jewish, one Cuban) faced a lot of racism in the sense of interpersonal hostility from bigoted people. Much worse stuff than anyone would say today. But legally speaking they were both white. And that mattered! — PolitiTweet.org

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Eh, fuck it … I’ll say more. There’s been a surge of interest in information about the postwar structure of racialized wealth building in the midcentury United States but I think a lot of people aren’t really understanding what Katznelson and others are saying. — PolitiTweet.org

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As white people they benefitted in a formal, programmatic sense from the postwar welfare state. People could call them names or slurs or make them feel unwelcome or whatever else they wanted. Nobody could take away their GI benefits or subsidized mortgages. They were white! — PolitiTweet.org

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