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It's not a slur. It's an empirical fact. Demand for housing there is much lower.

• dang 8y ago
  You called the people who want to live there "no one". Prejudice seeps out in comments like that. (Edit: I should have said "nobody" instead of "no one"; sorry.)
  • darawk 8y ago
    No one is pretty clearly a description of quantity, not a description of the people. I'm not sure why you would try to apply such an absurd and uncharitable interpretation to what I said, but if anything is toxic in this thread, it's that.
    • dang 8y ago
      I get that you were talking about quantity, but the figure of speech which describes millions of people as "nobody" has also a belittling aspect to it. This is the aspect I'm talking about.
      • darawk 8y ago
        Well, I simply disagree that the fact that a word has another, unintended meaning has any bearing on its use. I don't really see why it should, or why that would be a productive or useful social rule to impose.
        • dang 8y ago
          The word in question has a clear meaning, which clearly wasn't the sense in which you used it.
          • shawn 8y ago
            Thank you for showing why it's worth standing up to you. Viewers note: This is what I meant by "it's impossible to point out he might be mistaken."
          • darawk 8y ago
            ...and again, why is it that a sense that I didn't use matters?