What would happen to the US if it denaturalised and deported all non-whites?

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Would the economy collapse or thrive? Would there be countries happy to accept the deportees? How would they even deport so many people?

Curious about your thoughts on the hypothetical.

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unexposedhazard@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
The entire US food, healthcare, delivery, cleaning, packaging, etc sectors rely very heavily on non whites. Civil war over basic resource distribution would break out in days.

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- sanguinepar@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
  
  But realistically civil war would break out because people would just refuse to leave. 40% of the US population is non-white, there is no way you are getting 130 million people to just leave the country peacefully.
  
  Especially not when at least some of the white population would be on their side against those in favour of deportation. There’d be massive non compliance.
  
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- Tollana1234567@lemmy.today ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
  the sciences also depend on NON-WHITES, plus programming is predominately whites and asians. white people are often in RURAL areas, and heavily depend on immigrant labor to sustain thier in the dump states.
  
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- Tollana1234567@lemmy.today ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
  even having 1 million can be devestating, if it happens to one state at a time.
  
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Bytemeister@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
Immediate collapse. No one would take the deportees long term. There would be a huge swell in support for the deported people, but very rapidly other countries would shut their borders. The only way to realistically deport that many people is to get them to self deport by intimidating them.

I’m not so sure this question is hypothetical anymore.

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- Revan343@lemmy.ca ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
  
  The only way to realistically deport that many people is to get them to self deport by intimidating them.
  
  Well it’s not the only way. You could also militarily invade a neighbouring country, then forcibly deport people there, perhaps by train, perhaps to some sort of camps
  
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  - Bytemeister@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
    I don’t think “deportation” is the reich word to use at that point.
    
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HubertManne@piefed.social ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
collapse. straight out. Your talking about removing almost half the population at least and then you have what the bar to white is. Palestinian? Israeli? greek? italian? ukrainian? russian? etc, etc.... there have been many opinions on what is white enough right down to the aryan stuff. Then of course there is the final throwing away of any compliance with treatise.

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- piyuv@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
  Realistically, if this were to happen, current US government would use the scale from Family Guy
  
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- Brutticus@midwest.social ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
  I want to point out that it is this reason that OP has stumbled on that White Supremacy is a death cult. The answer is that it would start loose and get more and more narrow. A fascist state needs an enemy to rail against. First, in needs to conquer or cannibalize or subjugate; this is the source of its wealth.
  
  You mentioned “the line” but I also want to point out what white privilege is a social construct that has been extended to groups at different times historically. It was extended to the Jews after the Holocaust (Ashkanaz, at least), and I’m fully expecting somewhere down the line the deportation of America’s Jews to Israel (following the forfeiture our property, of course).
  
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DagwoodIII@piefed.social ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
The funniest thing about your question is defining 'non-whites.'

Back in the day, any Black ancestor made a person Black; that was so slave owners could sell their children by slave mothers. Thomas Jefferson had a slave wife/concubine/rape victim named Sally Hemmings. She was likely his legal wife's half sister. Sally's granddaughter was 1/8th of less African, but it was considered a scandal when she ran off and passed as White.

The longer any family has been in America, the more likely it is that they are 'non-white.'

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- Tollana1234567@lemmy.today ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
  non-whites would refer to all non-caucasian people, everyone thats not from europe or russia.
  
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  - astutemural@midwest.social ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
    Irish and Italian people would like a word with you
    
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spankmonkey@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
It would be literally impossible to pull off.

Trying to deport nearly half the population of the US would require it to be voluntary, and that isn’t going to happen. The sectors that would enforce it already include a lot of non-whites who are complicit because they personally are not being deported. People, especially the non-whites whose families have been in the US from before the US acquired their land from Mexico, would absolutely resist. The non-white population is oppressed, sure, but not to the extent of non-white populations in other colonial locations where a few whites are able to enforce racist laws through violence.

If attempted at the federal level it would implode immediately as multiple states would violently resist due to scale.

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Horsey@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
Truth is, if you’re not descended from the original colonists, every African American has lineage in the US farther back.

“White” in America is actually a moving goalpost that has been moving since literally the founding of the colonies. “Whites” today now comprise literally every fair skinned ethnic background that isn’t east Asian.i shit you not, I think Hispanics who are fair skinned will be the next group subsumed into the white category, followed by fair skinned East Asians. Based on the American definition of white, I, darker than some light skinned African Americans, am white. Middle Easterners are considered white.

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- FelixCress@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
  
  Middle Easterners are legally considered white because, I shit you not, the Supreme Court in the early 20th century considered Jesus to be white by definition, and since Jesus was middle eastern, middle easterners must also be considered “white”.
  
  🤣🤣🤣
  
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- RBWells@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
  Hispanic people were the “white people” where I grew up. It’s not really a racial category, there are black Hispanic people, white Hispanic people, here it just means your family came from some Spanish speaking place. So the rich Cubans who came here were absolutely the “white people” of my youth. And historically, it’s those Spanish Conquistadores who put the Hispanic into the Americas in the first place.
  
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  - Horsey@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
    Oh absolutely. Latin America is super diverse; I just think at some point Hispanic whites won’t be categorized separately in the USA. At the moment, demographic information asks if you’re Hispanic or not as a separate question. It’s an amount of bending over backwards that’s crazy to me.
    
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- Infrapink@thebrainbin.org ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
  
  “Whites” today now comprise literally every fair skinned ethnic background that isn’t east Asian. I shit you not, I think Hispanics who are fair skinned will be the next group subsumed into the white category
  
  Funny story. Before the 1980s, Hispanic people were considered white. (Modern people praise I Love Lucy for including an "interracial" marriage, but people in the 1950s just saw a white couple). But since Hispanic people in America tend to be a bit culturally distinct from the ruling class, other white people wanted to be racist against them, and so the meme arose and spread that people of Spanish and Portuguese descent are a race distinct from all other people of European descent.
  
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Bronzebeard@lemmy.zip ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
Any country that loses ~40+% of is population all at once is going to have a lot of major issues. Even more so when that population is concentrated in specific industries.

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Flax_vert@feddit.uk ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
Trump would go because he is orange

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- Zwuzelmaus@feddit.org ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
  I’ll remember this one. When I meet him, I will tell him.
  
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- Tollana1234567@lemmy.today ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
  trump would flee to russia .
  
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ordinarylove@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

Would the economy collapse or thrive?

No. Pure terror forever. If the US continues down this road, nothing but violence, death, starvation and terror until it is all done. No “US.” Fire. Death.

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Onomatopoeia@lemmy.cafe ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
First, define “white”.

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- BagOfHeavyStones@piefed.social ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
  #FFFFFF
  
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  - ivanafterall@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
    You filthy hex code whites don’t count. (0,0,0,0) or gtfo.
    
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Etterra@discuss.online ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
Honestly, if it was somehow even possible to do so logistically, the economy would probably go from “suffering” to “terminal implosion.”

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DeathByBigSad@sh.itjust.works ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
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- Tollana1234567@lemmy.today ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
  ccp is also pretty difficult, since they require people to renounce thier citizenship of birth, and ccp being pretty paranoid is pretty hostile to immigrants. unless you a rich white foreigner(china loves white people that serves several purpose, propaganda and use as the face for “companies” to make them more legitimate.
  
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dual_sport_dork@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
First there would have to be a raging and highly politicized debate over exactly who qualifies as “white.” It turns out there isn’t a clear cut distinction there which was a problem for 18th and 19th century bigoted fucks as well.

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- Tollana1234567@lemmy.today ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
  they can make clear cut, target all people that arnt white skinned.
  
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  - dual_sport_dork@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
    That sounds easy on paper but I know plenty of white dudes who work outdoors who are darker on a consistent basis than many Mexicans. Defining somebody’s “whiteness” just based on shade would exclude a lot of people these fuckers don’t want to, and vise-versa.
    
    The list of exceptions would wind up being longer than the rules. Of course we all know that in reality if such a thing were to actually happen, it would ultimately just devolve to fascists playing favorites on an individual basis with inconsistent, ever fluid, and capricious so-called criteria that are just a flimsy excuse to justify disposing of their personal enemies.
    
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Iamsqueegee@sh.itjust.works ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
See Golgafrincham

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- sanguinepar@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
  First they came for the telephone sanitisers…
  
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Zwuzelmaus@feddit.org ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
Hypothetical or not, your idea is racist.

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- lost_faith@lemmy.ca ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
  and what do you think the current regime is in the US if not racist
  
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  - Onomatopoeia@lemmy.cafe ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
    Hahahaha omg you people crack me up
    
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- starlinguk@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
  Talking about race is not racist.
  
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givesomefucks@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
The current US government would send them to the worst place imaginable…

Like, say Canada would take them under asylum, but for 100k a person we could send them to a death camp in El Salvador…

Guess which trump would pick?

And like someone else said, it would grind the US to a halt.

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- Tollana1234567@lemmy.today ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
  rwanda, south sudan, guatamala.
  
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Triasha@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
Economic meltdown, most of the population has no one that would take them so they will end up either in camps in failed/failing countries or inside the US itself.

Also getting the white population to agree to do it would be a big lift. The majority would passively oppose and a minority would go full on underground railroad/insurgency.

Only a minority would be totally on board.

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- Tollana1234567@lemmy.today ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
  and theres already animosity towards white people as it is: affluenza, white privelege. this will make them even more of a target.
  
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MrMakabar@slrpnk.net ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
We are talking about 128million non White Americans and that is not including white Latinos. Just to put it into context the Holocaust killed 6million Jews, the Partition of India moved 12-20million people and created a lot of suffering doing so and somewhat similar numbers in displaced people in Europe after WW2(moving borders and the like). Those are some of the darkest chapters of human history and this would be an order of magnitude large then those.

First of all, doing that would create a massive reaction. We are talking 38% of the US population being deported, so a civil war is very much an option.

The honest answer is that a lot of Americans are very well educated and rather rich. So if they would be allowed to leave, then they would be welcomed by other countries. However we are talking about numbers here, which would compeletly change the housing and job markets here. The locals will not like that and close their countries off. Still a good number would make it. At that point the US has two options: Wage a war to take some land for them or kill them. Taking land would lead to hatred of the Americans including the deported. We are also talking about a massive country here and probably a lot of death. Obviously killing everybody would be even worse. There is also the option of pushing them into say Alaska and make that independent. However that is unlikely.

The US economy would be absolutly destroyed by this. If you deport them quickly, it would lead to shortages. Most certainly shortage of workers, which would indeed push up wages. Housing would end up being cheap and people would move to the best cities of the country. On the international stage the US would be widely hated and probably be hit with sanctions(they deport a lot of people and that causes huge problems for other countries). So long term it might actually be good for white workers. However the rich would hate it, due to it destroying their cheap workforce. Short term the US would have massive shortages and suffer a lot.

Even just deporting a larger part of the non-white population would cause a lot of problems.

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- Tollana1234567@lemmy.today ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
  maybe they will keep the rich token ones behind, and deport everyone else.
  
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HiTekRedNek@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
There are more guns than people in the US, and contrary to belief, they’re not all owned by the magagotts…

What I find most disturbing about the Republican party is how quickly they shift from “small government is good” to “we need more government so we can enact our brand of authoritarianism! But those guys over there? They’re the big government ones!”

Which is nuts, because you can’t have an authoritarian government without a government large enough to enforce said authority!

I’m at the point where I am leaning more and more into the “just burn it all down and start over” side of things.

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- HasturInYellow@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
  That’s been my position for about a decade. Citizens United ended any hope I had that anything would turn us off this path. Corpo fascism has been coming for a long time.
  
  The Constitution is decent but lets rewrite it and leave out all of the glaring oversights/loopholes that cause the government to function by virtue of handshakes, bribes and back room deals.
  
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StClinton@lemmings.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
Canada would become the most powerful country in the world,

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Bwaz@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
What would happen if the US denaturalized and deported all whites?

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- Glitterbomb@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
  Unrealistic, who would take them? Probably easier to reserve some small bits of land somewhere and let them live there. We can call them Reservides or something. Start off saying they have all sorts of rights to the land and slowly start walking back the rights over the years.
  
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Hotrod54chevy@lemmy.ml ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
Remember that at one point Italians and Irish weren’t considered white either. Trump always acts like he wants to take the US back to a certain period of time, but that’s only loosely based off however he’s feeling right now. At any point he’d be liable to say that certain white people aren’t white and just get rid of them, but honestly, he’s already talking about getting rid of Rosie O’Donnell who already left just because she talks bad about him. No other reasons listed, and she’s white, so who knows 🤷

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MedicPigBabySaver@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
Some “stupid” questions are too stupid.

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alsaaas@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
Italians too? /j

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starlinguk@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
An implosion.

Bring it on.

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DirigibleProtein@aussie.zone ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
Well, actually:

Where would they deport First Nations people?

There were American people before the Mayflower arrived — why wouldn’t everyone who immigrated since that time be deported?
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- Tollana1234567@lemmy.today ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
  el salvador, doesnt have to be anywhere, just anyone thats very inconvenient for people to come back to the USa.
  
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JoMiran@lemmy.ml ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
Who would deport non-whites from the military?

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- Tollana1234567@lemmy.today ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
  probably poached by adverserial countries like russia and china, and non-ones like the UK or EU.
  
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Iamsqueegee@sh.itjust.works ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
See Golgafrincham

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