Thread 213009353

>Early 1900s America
>Country is in a golden age
>Poverty falling to record lows, crime is low and alcohol abuse is being stamped out
>Italians arrive
>Golden age immediately ends
>Italians set up mafias to bring the third-world conditions of their home countries with them
>Poverty increases wherever they go, crime skyrockets, mafias start moonshining, bringing alcoholism back up
>Many of American cities descend into Haiti-tier violence and poverty
>Italians eventually bred themselves out by intermarrying Irish women but their old neighborhoods are still shitholes to this day
Wow, thanks alot wops.

>>213009353 (OP)
Prohibition would've failed with or without the eventual crime syndicate it spawned.

Yeah the Irish or jewish mafia didn't exist

>>213009459
Yeah no one drank during the prohibition

>>213009470
Those were benign and only existed for the ethnic protection of their people. The wops weren't protecting themselves, they were fucking everywhere else up.

>>213009353 (OP)
Damn. It's funny how history repeated itself with Mexicans. Italians and Mexicans are nearly identical.

>>213009353 (OP)
You're welcome, fanook.

and now americans think these guys were cool because of 9001 hollywood movies romanticizing them

>>213009549
Benign organized crime. Yes. Uhhuh.

>>213009676
> t.Facundo Calabrese Di Nicola.

>>213009797
His ancestors were Polentoni. The ones here are Terroni

>>213009608
Take a quick glance at this old timey racist cartoon, no more than a second or two. What nationality is it (primarily) seething over?

>>213009877
Wow wtf
You could swap out the references to Italy for Mexico and it'd be indistinguishable.
Now I wonder if in 50 years Mexicans will be accepted as white and cartel movies will romanticize them the same way Italian Mafia is romanticized.

>>213009986
Mexicans will never be considered White they aren't from Europe and are half Indian

>>213010013
That's what your ancestors said about Italians at the time that anti Italian comic was made

>>213010099
You will never be White Pedro

>>213009353 (OP)
The poverty of early 1900s was inimaginable from todays perspective

The difference between the Italians And the Mexicans is numbers. Italians had their enclaves and stayed in them. Mexicans mace millions upon millions of people spreading everywhere, all over the country. They are seen as invaders and as of the modern day are extremely uppity, burning down cities if you try to deport the millions of their illegals brethren.

It's a false equivalence

>>213010432
This comic >>213009877
is painting Italians as invaders

>>213010432
Mexicans were there before your country was even founded. California and Texas were literally Mexican before you grabbed them

>>213010099
Nobody ever said the Italians were half Indian.

>>213010468
The issue is scope. Italians had to take a month long voyage from Europe to get here so it kept the numbers somewhat manageable . But Mexicans (I'm counting all Latinx as Mexican because there isn't a difference) just walk over here by the tens of millions, especially in the years before Orangeman.

>>213010551
The territories we took were essentially uninhabited you fucking mong. And what about the land the Mexicans stole? Or did you think Spanish was an indigenous north American language. You're a fucking clown

>>213010013
"White" is such a broad spectrum literally anyone can be out in or taken out.

>>213010551
And before that they were Spanish and before that they were Native (not Mexican native)

>>213010581
>Italians had to take a month long voyage from Europe to get here so it kept the numbers somewhat manageable
American stats predicted Italians would be the majority at the rate they were coming in during the 1910s.

>>213010622
They weren't uninhabited, they had more people as a percentage of their whole nation's population than what many Midwestern states have as a percentage of our modern population currently.

>>213010680
VGH what could've been. That would've been kino as fuck.

>>213010432
>Italians had their enclaves and stayed in them.
Italians moved around and were victims of hate crimes and lynchings.

>>213010717
An all Dago America? Heavens forfend

>>213009353 (OP)
Fuck lil timmy gon do?

>>213010727
No shit but anywhere they did move they stayed together, that's what I meant by enclaves

>>213010622
All of america was essentially uninhabited. Just because the population density is low compared to today doesnt mean mexicans havent been in what is now US soil for many more centuries than Italians
>>213010668
Mexicans partially descend from natives so idk what point you’re trying to make.

>>213010817
Not all natives are the same, like saying all Europeans came from the romans or whatever

>prohibition, drug epidemic and fall of the stock market was caused by italian immigrants
It boggles my mind of how stupid and misinformed the average american is.