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> they can't even be walking around looking poor without harassment (especially if also black/latino) I don't quite know where you're getting that. I mean, it

> they can't even be walking around looking poor without harassment (especially if also black/latino) I don't quite know where you're getting that. I mean, it's not like the city has enacted some kind of Jim Crow regime. Beverly Hills residents were among Barack Obama's most generous donors. You think they would stand for that kind of evil in their own city? Beverly Hills is represented by Democrats at the state and national levels. It sits in the middle of one of California's bluest counties. Are you saying LA County is tolerating that kind of blatant discrimination in one of its cities? This isn't Louisiana or Alabama for goodness sake. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beverly_Hills%2C_California#2010 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beverly_Hills%2C_California#20...

coldtea 7y ago
>I don't quite know where you're getting that. I mean, it's not like the city has enacted some kind of Jim Crow regime. Such places have done exactly that, in several ways. E.g.: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Redlining https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Redlining This a good source of tens of other methods (and it's not even up to day) used in L.A in general to keep the "riffraff" out: https://www.amazon.com/City-Quartz-Excavating-Future-Angeles/dp/1844675688 https://www.amazon.com/City-Quartz-Excavating-Future-Angeles... >Beverly Hills residents were among Barack Obama's most generous donors. That's not really relevant. They can virtue signal how non-racist they are (as long as it doesn't cost them anything real -- donations help buy favors) and still only live in 99% white areas, with closed gates, and local pops/private police ready to harass black/latino people for your protection. >You think they would stand for that kind of evil in their own city? 100%
- HillaryBriss 7y ago
  > Such places have done exactly that, in several ways. E.g.: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Redlining https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Redlining You're not presenting evidence specific to Beverly Hills here. Saying that "such places have done exactly that" is not evidence of what's happening today specifically in Beverly Hills. And redlining is not a scheme for harassing people who are walking around on the street. Why is that your response in this context? > They can virtue signal how non-racist they are (as long as it doesn't cost them anything real -- donations help buy favors) and still only live in 99% white areas You're assuming the very point you should be proving. You haven't offered any evidence about why some BH residents supported Obama. Instead, you assigned them a motive without providing any objective evidence. How are you going to persuade anyone of your viewpoints that way? And Beverly Hills is not 99% white.
CapricornNoble 7y ago
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/beverly-hills-back-on-the_b_5732112 https://www.huffpost.com/entry/beverly-hills-back-on-the_b_5... Anecdote: my friend from Trinidad who has an affinity for Caucasian women told me a story of harassment in Beverly Hills. He and a lady friend were in the woman's Mercedes and the police pulled them over and kept asking the woman if she was "under duress".
mturmon 7y ago
Bev Hills has fought tooth and claw to ensure a subway would not go through their city, and it was generally reported that the fear was that poorer people would be more easily able to go there. They (shamefully) got their Democratic congressman, Henry Waxman, to pass a bill forbidding Federal funding for any subway to the area: https://la.curbed.com/2012/4/13/10379720/eighties-subwaystaller-henry-waxman-enters-purple-line-fray https://la.curbed.com/2012/4/13/10379720/eighties-subwaystal... Some of this opposition continues to this day. Here’s the latest dispatch: https://www.lamag.com/driver/beverly-hills-finally-loses-crazy-stupid-subway-battle/ https://www.lamag.com/driver/beverly-hills-finally-loses-cra...

coldtea 7y ago

>I don't quite know where you're getting that. I mean, it's not like the city has enacted some kind of Jim Crow regime. Such places have done exactly that, in several ways. E.g.: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Redlining https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Redlining This a good source of tens of other methods (and it's not even up to day) used in L.A in general to keep the "riffraff" out: https://www.amazon.com/City-Quartz-Excavating-Future-Angeles/dp/1844675688 https://www.amazon.com/City-Quartz-Excavating-Future-Angeles... >Beverly Hills residents were among Barack Obama's most generous donors. That's not really relevant. They can virtue signal how non-racist they are (as long as it doesn't cost them anything real -- donations help buy favors) and still only live in 99% white areas, with closed gates, and local pops/private police ready to harass black/latino people for your protection. >You think they would stand for that kind of evil in their own city? 100%

HillaryBriss 7y ago
> Such places have done exactly that, in several ways. E.g.: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Redlining https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Redlining You're not presenting evidence specific to Beverly Hills here. Saying that "such places have done exactly that" is not evidence of what's happening today specifically in Beverly Hills. And redlining is not a scheme for harassing people who are walking around on the street. Why is that your response in this context? > They can virtue signal how non-racist they are (as long as it doesn't cost them anything real -- donations help buy favors) and still only live in 99% white areas You're assuming the very point you should be proving. You haven't offered any evidence about why some BH residents supported Obama. Instead, you assigned them a motive without providing any objective evidence. How are you going to persuade anyone of your viewpoints that way? And Beverly Hills is not 99% white.

CapricornNoble 7y ago

https://www.huffpost.com/entry/beverly-hills-back-on-the_b_5732112 https://www.huffpost.com/entry/beverly-hills-back-on-the_b_5... Anecdote: my friend from Trinidad who has an affinity for Caucasian women told me a story of harassment in Beverly Hills. He and a lady friend were in the woman's Mercedes and the police pulled them over and kept asking the woman if she was "under duress".

mturmon 7y ago

Bev Hills has fought tooth and claw to ensure a subway would not go through their city, and it was generally reported that the fear was that poorer people would be more easily able to go there. They (shamefully) got their Democratic congressman, Henry Waxman, to pass a bill forbidding Federal funding for any subway to the area: https://la.curbed.com/2012/4/13/10379720/eighties-subwaystaller-henry-waxman-enters-purple-line-fray https://la.curbed.com/2012/4/13/10379720/eighties-subwaystal... Some of this opposition continues to this day. Here’s the latest dispatch: https://www.lamag.com/driver/beverly-hills-finally-loses-crazy-stupid-subway-battle/ https://www.lamag.com/driver/beverly-hills-finally-loses-cra...