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Ah that reminds me, we should not discount racism as a factor. Many would rather become debt slaves for life or forgo children than live cheaply around black pe

by im3w1l 6y ago

Ah that reminds me, we should not discount racism as a factor. Many would rather become debt slaves for life or forgo children than live cheaply around black people.

Lammy 6y ago
Very sad to see this downvoted. I don't know how people can see things like "WTF Happened in 1971?" without realizing the date correlations to the 1968 Fair Housing Act and especially especially to the 1974 Equal Credit Opportunity Act: https://wtfhappenedin1971.com/ https://wtfhappenedin1971.com/ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Civil_Rights_Act_of_1968#Title_VIII%E2%80%93IX:_Fair_Housing_Act https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Civil_Rights_Act_of_1968#Title... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Equal_Credit_Opportunity_Act https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Equal_Credit_Opportunity_Act
- Infinitesimus 6y ago
  I don't quite follow - what's your hypothesis here?
frongpik 6y ago
Using the word racism so liberally devalues its meaning.
rufus_foreman 6y ago
I did live cheaply around black people when I was younger, I lived in a maybe 90% black neighborhood in a literal mansion, for a few hundred a month. It was a dilapidated mansion, and the gunshots from the open air drug market a couple streets over started around 7 most evenings, but it was a mansion and it was cheap. I have fond memories of those times. But when you talk about raising children... Here's a link to another story that was on the front page today, https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26361352 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26361352. It's about a student in Baltimore who failed every class but 3 in his four years of high school, skipped class half the time, and got a 0.13 grade point average. That put him just short of being in the top half of his class, he was an average student in that school. Can you think of any reasons other than racism that a parent might choose a different neighborhood to live in? The neighborhood with the mansion has been gentrified for years now, I don't have kids but I still wouldn't seek out a similar neighborhood to what I lived in back then now. My attitudes towards risk and crime are different than they were when I was younger. I guess I am a racist now too? But yeah, that's certainly one way to save on rent. Worked for me.

by im3w1l 6y ago

Ah that reminds me, we should not discount racism as a factor. Many would rather become debt slaves for life or forgo children than live cheaply around black people.

Lammy 6y ago

Very sad to see this downvoted. I don't know how people can see things like "WTF Happened in 1971?" without realizing the date correlations to the 1968 Fair Housing Act and especially especially to the 1974 Equal Credit Opportunity Act: https://wtfhappenedin1971.com/ https://wtfhappenedin1971.com/ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Civil_Rights_Act_of_1968#Title_VIII%E2%80%93IX:_Fair_Housing_Act https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Civil_Rights_Act_of_1968#Title... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Equal_Credit_Opportunity_Act https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Equal_Credit_Opportunity_Act

Infinitesimus 6y ago
I don't quite follow - what's your hypothesis here?

frongpik 6y ago

Using the word racism so liberally devalues its meaning.

rufus_foreman 6y ago

I did live cheaply around black people when I was younger, I lived in a maybe 90% black neighborhood in a literal mansion, for a few hundred a month. It was a dilapidated mansion, and the gunshots from the open air drug market a couple streets over started around 7 most evenings, but it was a mansion and it was cheap. I have fond memories of those times. But when you talk about raising children... Here's a link to another story that was on the front page today, https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26361352 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26361352. It's about a student in Baltimore who failed every class but 3 in his four years of high school, skipped class half the time, and got a 0.13 grade point average. That put him just short of being in the top half of his class, he was an average student in that school. Can you think of any reasons other than racism that a parent might choose a different neighborhood to live in? The neighborhood with the mansion has been gentrified for years now, I don't have kids but I still wouldn't seek out a similar neighborhood to what I lived in back then now. My attitudes towards risk and crime are different than they were when I was younger. I guess I am a racist now too? But yeah, that's certainly one way to save on rent. Worked for me.