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   Anil Dash (anildash@me.dm)'s status on Friday, 20-Feb-2026 03:13:16 JST Anil Dash

   On this day in 1923, the U.S. Supreme Court *unanimously* decided that people of South Asian descent could not be American citizens, and retroactively stripped citizenship from many who had already been naturalized. Years of organized persecution followed. https://www.saada.org/explore/publications/tides/articles/united-states-of-america-vs-vaishno-das-bagai

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     Anil Dash (anildash@me.dm)'s status on Friday, 20-Feb-2026 15:35:09 JST Anil Dash

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     • Duckbilled Plattypus.
     • Taran Rampersad
     • PurpleSage

     @pattykimura @knowprose @Katiemorag certainly anti-Blackness was a poisonous and immoral path for them to choose in their pursuit of citizenship; only solidarity can lead to freedom. I did a talk with this as a central pillar a decade ago: https://youtu.be/y1SrFctEYY4

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     Duckbilled Plattypus. (pattykimura@beige.party)'s status on Friday, 20-Feb-2026 15:35:11 JST Duckbilled Plattypus.

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     • Taran Rampersad
     • PurpleSage

     @knowprose @Katiemorag @anildash

     Both Thind and Ogawa used racism and racist tropes to prove their whiteness. Sigh. Hit the wall of racism. No, we're not special, we're not exceptional, we're not white, when it comes to racist America. South Asians, East Asians, Asians of all stripes will face the racist belief that we are "unfit" to be citizens, no matter what. Unless and until we see ourselves aligned against racism directed at African Americans, Latinos, Native Americans none of us will ever be equal.

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     PurpleSage (katiemorag@mastodon.scot)'s status on Friday, 20-Feb-2026 15:35:12 JST PurpleSage

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     • Taran Rampersad

     @knowprose @anildash ?

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     Taran Rampersad (knowprose@mastodon.social)'s status on Friday, 20-Feb-2026 15:35:12 JST Taran Rampersad

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     • PurpleSage

     @Katiemorag @anildash https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_v._Bhagat_Singh_Thind

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     Taran Rampersad (knowprose@mastodon.social)'s status on Friday, 20-Feb-2026 15:35:13 JST Taran Rampersad

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     @anildash yeah. The US census history is an amazingly silly bunch of stuff.