Some Days, It's Great to Be a Brutish Beast!

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WASPs, we brutish beasts have bested you:
The descendants of the Catholic Irish immigrants, described by 19th century nativists as “low-browed and savage, groveling and bestial, lazy and wild, simian and sensual”... as Unz observes, “within less than a century had become wealthier and better educated than the average white American, including those of ‘Old Stock’ ancestry.” Old Stock means earlier British, German, and Dutch immigrants.
Face it, racists, Unz has shown you are wrong given your own dude's data!

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  1. Lorenzo3:19 AM

    SCOTUS is 6 Catholics and 3 Jews. What more does one need to say about the passing of WASP dominance?

    Of course, if you want to be POTUS or on SCOTUS, you have to have gone to Harvard or Yale. The changing face of social advantage.

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  2. Anonymous9:19 AM

    What understanding amongst their social order had they found that would make such an impact? That's what we should be looking at.

    But then the question is of what standard or measure do we use, or what measure and standard was used to come to such a conclusion in the first place?

    This, you do not provide.

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