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When those immigration quotas (which almost entirely banned any kind of non-European migration) were instituted in the US, most Americans had a healthy belief in the superiority of their own race and I see nothing wrong with that. There is nothing wrong with white supremacy. It's justified by history.
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If for supremacy you mean like the attitude of a parent who feels that their children are the best in the world I agree. But if it is the belief that a race/ethnicity is worthier to exist and to thrive than another I don't. It's natural to care for your own family and children more than for those of a stranger. But that doesn't mean that decent people (at least according to my understanding of decency) would deny other children the same basic rights as their own. They wouldn't require, for instance, that other children should be judged differently by the law, or should be paid less for the same job. Anyway, this is not relevant to my point. Whatever the attitude of Americans in the 1920s, those immigration quotas were designed to preserve the ethnic/racial composition of the country, and that is not a question of supremacy. If somebody wants to come and live at my place and become part of my family I have any right to deny their request, whether I believe they are inferior or not.
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