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> if we can't bear trivial negative consequences The people being exposed to all this aren't being compensated in any way, any medical problems or other issues
by JaimeThompson 4y ago
> if we can't bear trivial negative consequences
The people being exposed to all this aren't being compensated in any way, any medical problems or other issues they have to fully pay for themselves.
Might be different if they got taken care of.
- angrygoat 4y agoThe Last Week Tonight episode on Environmental Racism is highly applicable here – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-v0XiUQlRLw https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-v0XiUQlRLw It's very likely the people being exposed to this are marginalized and have little power to respond.
- CodeSgt 4y agoI wish people qould stop conflating "racism" with negative actions impacting low-income communities. Yes, minorities are proportionally more likely to be in low-income communities, but the actions taken to harm these low-income communities hard the entire community, not just certain ethnicities within it. If the intent was specifically to do this in black neighborhoods, regardless of that neighborhoods comparative wealth, then it would be racism. As is, it's a lot more complicated than that.