In 1882, for example, all Chinese people were banned from entering via the Chinese Exclusion Act. In 1907-08, under the Gentleman's Agreement with Japan, the Japanese agreed to deny passports to its laborers wishing to head to the U.S., where hostility against Japanese immigrants was growin...
Coyne and most of commenters here, think that the immigration policy of Western countries should discriminate against certain religions and cultures. Once there is a large block of voters hostile to Western values, democracy will make it impossible to uphold these values. And once...
There’s no such thing as perfect or clean data; it always contains biases, assumptions, power structures and flaws. Data can go missing in many ways. In fact, if you’re not collecting data, don’t have access to some kinds of data, or can’t use existing data for a specific data...
Her suggested solution was to deport people of colour (in particular, Chinese, Black, Mexican, Greek and Middle Eastern people). Though this didn’t happen, her racist conspiracy led to laws governing narcotics—Canada passed its first anti-cannabis law a year after the publication of The ...