This is Pathetic.

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Citations and Further Reading:

The cruel kids’ table
https://nymag.com/intelligencer/article/inauguration-trump-supporters-conservative-movement-post-maga.html

The list
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/interactive/2025/nsf-trump-administration-restrictions/
https://www.washingtonpost.com/science/2025/02/04/national-science-foundation-trump-executive-orders-words/

The Reconstruction Era and Jim Crow
https://www.history.com/news/jim-crow-laws-black-vote

Statistics
https://www.edweek.org/leadership/white-workers-more-likely-to-get-good-jobs-at-every-level-of-education/2019/10
https://www.forbes.com/sites/susanadams/2014/06/27/white-high-school-drop-outs-are-as-likely-to-land-jobs-as-black-college-students/
https://www.edweek.org/leadership/white-workers-more-likely-to-get-good-jobs-at-every-level-of-education/2019/10

Ten facts about wealth inequality in the USA

Discrimination and Barriers to Well-Being: The State of the LGBTQI+ Community in 2022

Fact Sheet: LGBT Workers in the Labor Market

Fact Sheet: LGBT Workers in the Labor Market


https://www.migrationpolicy.org/content/who-is-us-immigrant
https://www.nber.org/papers/w32389
https://www.ssa.gov/oact/NOTES/pdf_notes/note151.pdf
https://www.npr.org/2024/03/08/1237103158/immigrants-are-less-likely-to-commit-crimes-than-us-born-americans-studies-find
https://siepr.stanford.edu/news/mythical-tie-between-immigration-and-crime
https://doi.org/10.1177/17456916221082111

Jo Ellis
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/feb/11/washington-dc-plane-crash-diversity-trans-jo-ellis

Frontlash, not backlash
https://books.google.com/books?id=bqZdEAAAQBAJ&newbks=1&newbks_redir=0&printsec=frontcover (Ch.14)
https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2020/05/white-backlash-nothing-new/611914/

Democrats on immigration
https://jacobin.com/2025/02/democrats-trump-immigration-deportation-guantanamo

Racial capitalism
https://books.google.com/books?id=XubaDwAAQBAJ&newbks=1&newbks_redir=0&printsec=frontcover

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