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Jan 2 • 8 tweets • 3 min read • Read on X
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Some excerpts from the white flight chapter of Jeremy Carl's "The Unprotected Class": The "racial transformation" of urban neighborhoods in the 50s-80s was incredibly rapid, South Shore going from 96% white to 94% black in 30 years. Image
I did not know Rosa Parks was attacked in her own home in Detroit (by a black man). Image
"White flight resembles ethnic cleansing, but we blame the victims rather than the perpetrators." Image
Apparently, black city home value as percentage of white value follows the Baby Boom Pattern. Image
California voted to allow individual racial discrimination by homeowners when selling as a matter of property rights. This was, as is often the case, overturned by the Warren Court. Image
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Rosedale mentioned. Mass racial revenge rapes of the elderly, sometimes covered up for with hate crime hoaxes. Image
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Obama Administration's post-08 mortgage modifications essentially handed hundreds of billions to minorities. Image
AFFH: an Obama Admin policy to force cities everywhere in the country to build dense subsidized housing ("affordable") and actively recruit blacks to live there. Image

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Jun 22
This is just silly. Between Lend-Lease and the Marshall Plan, Britain got about 300B (net, accounting for "reverse Lend Lease") dollars worth of free aid in WWII. This is almost exactly the same as the total aid Israel has received from the US in its entire history.
This does not count things like the extremely generous terms of the Anglo-American loan (long repayment schedule, below-inflation interest rate, the ability to suspend payments up to six times if it couldn't be afforded) or destroyers-for-bases as "aid."
Britain was far less ruined by WWII than any other major participant except the US, and poor British economic and financial performance is because Attlee was an actual true-believing Fabian socialist, and his continental equivalents were mostly Communists kept out of govt. Image
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Jun 18
Excerpts from "Downfall: The End of the Imperial Japanese Empire." (1999) Image
Unconditional surrender was publicly adopted as a war goal in Jan 1943, with the idea of preventing WWIII, as many Germans, including Hitler, thought Germany had not been beaten militarily in WWI and as such wanted to fight WWII. This caused trouble later. Image
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(My opinion, not in the book, is that demanding true unconditional surrender was a mistake. Eisenhower wanted to publicly guarantee law, order, and property, because many German units resisted to the end out of fear. Since the US was going to respect those, should have said so.)
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Jun 17
Excerpts from "Shattered Sword" (2005), a history of the Battle of Midway. I assume the rough contours of Midway are broadly familiar. The key thing the book adds is use of untranslated Japanese sources, which debunked many common misconceptions about the battle. Image
The genesis of the simultaneous Japanese attacks on Midway and the Aleutians Islands: the IJN had won so hard so fast (Pearl Harbor, Malaya/Singapore, Indian Ocean raid, Philippines, Dutch East Indies), they didn't have any obvious next thing to do. Image
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On Yamamoto: he rose to the top of the IJN despite making many enemies for his stances on the Washington/London Naval Treaties (pro), carrier aviation (pro), and alliance with Nazi Germany (anti). Effectively took control by threatening to resign when he didn't get his way. Image
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Jun 12
Some excerpts from "India's War: WWII and the Making of Modern South Asia" by Srinath Raghavan, published in 2016. Image
First thing to understand about the Raj is that it was practically an empire of its own within the British one, and with a great of autonomy though not self-government. India was a signatory of the Treaty of Versailles. 30M Indians emigrated to other parts of the Empire. Image
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The Viceroy of India declared war without consulting any Indian body. The INC was generally torn between broad opposition to the Nazis and not wanting to cooperate with the Raj without further political concessions. Image
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Jun 11
The Mexican population of the US Southwest was 83,727 in 1850. This is because we decided against annexing populated areas on the grounds that Mexicans were not fit for self-govt. The modern Mexican pop in the US ~entirely descended from post-1900 immigration, >90% post-WWII. Image
3/4 of this tiny population (outnumbered by more than twice as many Indians, because Mexico did not actually control this territory, hence inviting Anglo settlers) was in New Mexico.
In 1900, Mexicans were 7% of the US Southwest. There was significant Mexican immigration 1900-1930 (followed by mass deportations under Hoover, Roosevelt, and Eisenhower). Even by 1950, it was only 10%. Image
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Jun 8
Thread from the 2015 version of "How Long Will South Africa Survive?" (RW Johnson, the author, wrote a book with the same title in 1977). "Once the great change of 1990-94 took place there was a general loss of interest in South Africa in the world at large." Image
South African GDP grew at 8.3% per year from 1945-65 (admittedly, with extremely high black population growth). Image
British entry to the EEC screwed South Africa by damaging SA's biggest export market and more importantly by forcing Portugal into the EEC, which indirectly destroyed the Portuguese Empire in Africa. Image
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