Italian Americans used to face a lot of discrimination but now Italian hate in America is virtually non existent. How did this happen? Is it possible for this change to happen for other marginalized groups?
Edit: You don’t need to state the obvious that they’re white and other minorities aren’t, we all have eyes. Also my definition of discrimination was referring to hate crime level discrimination, I know casual bigotry towards Italians still exists but that wasn’t what I was referring to.
Anyways thank you for all the insightful answers, I’m extremely happy my post sparked a lot of discussion and interesting perspectives
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Because they, much like the Irish, became a large enough representation of the population to become the discriminators themselves.
It tickles me pink when people of Irish and Italian ancestry look down on todays immigrants, as if their ancestors weren’t running away from shitty issues in the old country and looking to make a better life for them and their future descendants.
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