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Heh, this reminds of a similar incident in New York a few years ago: https://www.nytimes.com/2014/07/26/nyregion/homeless-shelters-opening-in-queens-stirs-ugly-
by fatjokes 9y ago
Heh, this reminds of a similar incident in New York a few years ago: https://www.nytimes.com/2014/07/26/nyregion/homeless-shelters-opening-in-queens-stirs-ugly-exchanges.html https://www.nytimes.com/2014/07/26/nyregion/homeless-shelter...
tl;dr: they opened a homeless shelter in a heavily (Asian) immigrant community and were met with protests. The result was a sadly hilarious exchange between the two groups with one side yelling "get a job" and the other side yelling "go back to [some Asian country]".
A more paranoid person would see these moves as politically intentional. As the stereotype goes, they're expected to take it quietly, they're not as politically involved, and when they do, they're less likely to invoke sympathy (xenophobia in America seems to be more acceptable, at least vs. racism, and there appears to be a lot of resentment towards Asians.) The problem then becomes minority-vs-minority, so racism accusations are not directed at whites.