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> Isn't it odd that crime is skyrocketing in places which are governed by people who think in these terms? "Fun" facts: California was the epicenter of the 20t
by Lammy 5y ago
> Isn't it odd that crime is skyrocketing in places which are governed by people who think in these terms?
"Fun" facts: California was the epicenter of the 20th-century American eugenics movement[0] whose ideas became very famous around 1940, was the place that invented single-family zoning[1] (in Berkeley in 1916) immediately after banning land ownership by non-whites in 1913[2], that once passed a state referendum to explicitly nullify a state-level fair-housing act[3] passed a year prior, that passed the first modern firearms-restriction act on explicitly racial grounds[4], and that pioneered regressive segregation-with-extra-steps property tax laws[5]. It is an extremely racially-segregated place, to this day[6], and always has been despite our leaders' constant pandering to the contrary. There are so many things to love about California, but this isn't one of them and I'd urge you to reconsider what you know about it :/
[0] https://www.alternet.org/2020/12/josef-mengele/ https://www.alternet.org/2020/12/josef-mengele/
[1] https://globalurban.org/Berkeley_Zoning_Origins.pdf https://globalurban.org/Berkeley_Zoning_Origins.pdf
[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/California_Alien_Land_Law_of_1913 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/California_Alien_Land_Law_of_1...
[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1964_California_Proposition_14 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1964_California_Proposition_14
[4] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mulford_Act https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mulford_Act
[5] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1978_California_Proposition_13 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1978_California_Proposition_13
[6] http://radicalcartography.net/index.html?bayarea http://radicalcartography.net/index.html?bayarea