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If my neighbor is poor or black or gay, I have no or little reason to care; if my neighbor is involved in petty crime or is causing a nuisance I want nothing to
by tomjen3 10y ago
If my neighbor is poor or black or gay, I have no or little reason to care; if my neighbor is involved in petty crime or is causing a nuisance I want nothing to do with him. In general black people are/were poorer and poor people (regardless of gender) are more likely to be involved in crime.
My suspicious is that Singapore was able to integrate because they are also super though on crime and the whites who were racists couldn't go anywhere else and so had to deal, while those whites who weren't racists didn't have to deal with increased crime.
Alternatively Singapores reputation as a model multicultural society isn't as true as it seems.
- tptacek 10y agoIt's interesting how you've followed not one but two lossy indirections here to get to your (implied) comfort with ostracizing black people. (If I've misjudged the subtext, please both let me know any accept my apologies in advance!)
- tomjen3 10y agoI see that I wrote regardless of gender, which should have been regardless of race. I don't personally have any issues with people based on the color of their skin, but it would be mindlessly stupid to assume that was generally the case that long ago, when it is not even the case now.