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Re: Replit founder Amjad Masad isn’t afraid of Silicon Valley

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Post by oceanplexian »

mise_en_place wrote: post #71

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What are you even talking about? My family is Argentine and 100% assimilated, speak English, love and embrace American culture and values. No one has ever treated us any differently in any context both in middle America and on the coasts.

It’s not a racial issue either, because my friends who are first generation Asian, Indian, etc, would all share the same sentiment. America is the most welcoming place on Earth for immigrants who are willing to put up even the smallest effort to assimilate into the culture.

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Post by KK7NIL »

renewiltord wrote: post #77
mise_en_place wrote: post #71

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The majority of Americans are of British ancestry and the polarization between Dems and Reps is pretty high. You think that a coastal elite immigrant British descendant and Asian-American are farther apart than the same chap and a similar counterpart in Appalachia? I doubt it.

> The majority of Americans are of British ancestry

No they aren't. Even if you narrow it down just to white Americans, British ancestry is almost even with German and does not hold a majority once you include Irish, Italian, etc. [1]

I don't blame you for thinking they are tough, as Anglo culture and language has been unusually dominant, probably because the original 13 colonies were very Anglo and the whites that trickled in later largely assimilated. "Albion's seed" is an interesting book on this topic.

[1]: https://www.census.gov/library/stories/2023/10/2020-census-d...

Edit: British doesn't usually denote an ethnic group so I took it to mean Anglo, but if you take it to mean Anglo+Celtic then it would indeed make a majority of whites in the US due to the very large Irish population.

Re: Replit founder Amjad Masad isn’t afraid of Silicon Valley

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Post by siltcakes »

mise_en_place wrote: post #71

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I don't understand this comment. Are you saying that Masad is not assimilated into the US because he doesn't support Israel's genocide against his people? Israel is not the US and supporting it is an increasingly unpopular position in the US. If anything he's more assimilated due to his position.

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Post by mattfrommars »

incrudible wrote: post #76
rowanseymour wrote: post #45

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Trying to frame the violent expulsion of Palestinians from their homeland as just "Jews trying to live in their own homeland".. isn't working in 2026 and nobody needs to read the thoughts of a man who saw Cecil Rhodes as a kindred spirit.

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Jews left Arab stats on their own accord because of rise of Zionism.

Arab were the only folks who accepted Jews in the first place as they sought refuge from Nazi Europe

Re: Replit founder Amjad Masad isn’t afraid of Silicon Valley

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Post by Forgeties79 »

oceanplexian wrote: post #81
mise_en_place wrote: post #71

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What are you even talking about? My family is Argentine and 100% assimilated, speak English, love and embrace American culture and values. No one has ever treated us any differently in any context both in middle America and on the coasts. It’s not a racial issue either, because my friends who are first generation Asian, Indian, etc, would all share the same sentiment. America is the most welcoming place on Earth for…

So racism has been (more or less) eradicated in the US? Just trying to understand your comment before I respond more substantively because that’s a very striking claim and I want to be sure that’s actually what you mean.

Re: Replit founder Amjad Masad isn’t afraid of Silicon Valley

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Post by JumpCrisscross »

siltcakes wrote: post #69
jerlam wrote: post #22

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The only contrarian, just like everyone else.

He and Paul Graham, truly are the only people speaking out against Zionism though. The rest of the VC industry is either staunchly pro-Israel or silent on the matter.

> He and Paul Graham, truly are the only people speaking out against Zionism

Not sure what about this is contrarian.

Re: Replit founder Amjad Masad isn’t afraid of Silicon Valley

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Post by sheepscreek »

renewiltord wrote: post #77
mise_en_place wrote: post #71

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The majority of Americans are of British ancestry and the polarization between Dems and Reps is pretty high. You think that a coastal elite immigrant British descendant and Asian-American are farther apart than the same chap and a similar counterpart in Appalachia? I doubt it.

That’s a fair point - as demonstrated by Amjad’s high regard for libertarian values.

People are multifaceted. We’re complex and sometimes irrational. I can also believe that you can share certain views yet still not be fully embraced or respected for them.

As a crude example, a Caucasian man who was born and raised in Japan thought of himself to be Japanese ideologically. Yet to the Japanese he was always an outsider - as a result, he has never felt truly at home anywhere.

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Post by JumpCrisscross »

siltcakes wrote: post #74
nailer wrote: post #28

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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> Jewish homeland is Poland, Russia, Germany

Jews have been in the Levant longer than they’ve been in Germany. (And in both for less time than they’ve been in America.)

The problem is with the notion of a homeland. Whose ancestors had what claim to something shouldn’t have bearing on how people are treated today.

Re: Replit founder Amjad Masad isn’t afraid of Silicon Valley

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Post by Forgeties79 »

renewiltord wrote: post #77
mise_en_place wrote: post #71

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The majority of Americans are of British ancestry and the polarization between Dems and Reps is pretty high. You think that a coastal elite immigrant British descendant and Asian-American are farther apart than the same chap and a similar counterpart in Appalachia? I doubt it.

> The majority of Americans are of British ancestry

Wildly inaccurate

Re: Replit founder Amjad Masad isn’t afraid of Silicon Valley

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Post by mise_en_place »

oceanplexian wrote: post #81
mise_en_place wrote: post #71

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What are you even talking about? My family is Argentine and 100% assimilated, speak English, love and embrace American culture and values. No one has ever treated us any differently in any context both in middle America and on the coasts. It’s not a racial issue either, because my friends who are first generation Asian, Indian, etc, would all share the same sentiment. America is the most welcoming place on Earth for…

I'm not making a normative judgement here, it's just my observation as the child of immigrants myself. There are of course exceptions to the rule. I'm making an argument in the context of political economy, please don't take it personally.
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