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>No one cries racism when an article about affluent whites taking over a neighborhood. People absolutely do, even when words as strong as "took over" aren't us
by helen___keller 7y ago
>No one cries racism when an article about affluent whites taking over a neighborhood.
People absolutely do, even when words as strong as "took over" aren't used. Whenever race is mentioned wrt gentrification, it's one of the top comments|
For example https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19819695 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19819695
> With the passage of the Civil Rights Act, we as a society decided that racial segregation was bad, and trying to demonize people people buying homes in a certain area due to their race was wrong
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> Not okay to tell some one he ought not live somewhere because of his race. This is true regardless of what that race may be.
- mieseratte 7y agoWell I was clearly wrong to claim "no one," but that has no bearing on whether the user-submitted article referenced was written with actual racial animus as asserted, or was just ill-phrased observation.