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In the US, we have a living history of discriminatory policies based on race https://www.thesidewalksymposium.com/blog/the-enduring-shadows-redlinings-mark-on-
by ladidahh 9mo ago
In the US, we have a living history of discriminatory policies based on race
https://www.thesidewalksymposium.com/blog/the-enduring-shadows-redlinings-mark-on-memphis https://www.thesidewalksymposium.com/blog/the-enduring-shado... , here is a quick overview of redlining in Memphis
- mhb 9mo agoYeah. I've heard about it. So this wouldn't be a problem if it affected a different group of people?
- butlike 9mo agoProbably not because if it affected white neighborhoods, it either wouldn't be enacted, shut down after complaints, or receive enough bad press as to be shut down.
- mhb 9mo agoThat's a lot of assumptions. If they wanted that to be the point of the article they could have done it a lot more explicitly.
- ladidahh 9mo agoIt would be the exact same problem, and equally bad.
- mhb 9mo agoI agree. Which is why I think that detail is not relevant and just a distraction.
- ladidahh 9mo agoWell, if racism in America was over. As in, similar rates of wealth and poverty, incarceration and college degrees, etc etc, across racial lines, then yeah, it would be a distraction. But when economic disadvantage, inherited from outright racist laws, is abundantly clear to see, it's hard for me to accept that we are not still anti black (and anti poor, etc) as a country when things like this happen
- abenga 9mo agoIt isn't affecting (and historically doesn't affect) the "different group" though. That's the point.