Yes, but you're arguably still doing the same thing, just slightly more indirectly. >The start of many US zoning laws was based on racism though. No one is say

Yes, but you're arguably still doing the same thing, just slightly more indirectly. >The start of many US zoning laws was based on racism though. No one is saying every zoning law was racist, or that racism is the sole reason they are bad, but their origin is undoubtedly tied to racism. Here, there's the pretty explicit connotation of "racism created zoning laws", and that's only a mental step or two removed from "zoning laws are racist because racism created them". I do think that nickff's comment was pulling from the current argumentative zeitgeist as well though.