ta2164

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by ta2164 5y ago
"Democracy Dies in Darkness" I don't disagree, but it's hilarious because The Washington Post is one of the biggest darkness merchants there is.
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by ta2164 5y ago
You don't get to magically redefine what "racist" is because the current definition doesn't match up with your narrative. Suburbs are de facto and de jure not racist. No one is stopping any race of people from moving to
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by ta2164 5y ago
>You're pretending that explicit racism is the only form of racism. I'm not pretending, racism is racism, you don't get to redefine what words mean in order to fit your narrative. Suburbs are de facto and de jure not raci
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by ta2164 5y ago
You're straw manning hard. No one is making the claim that laws of the past weren't racist. Now, they're not, and so Asians, Indians, Africans (as in recent African immigrants), etc. all flood to the suburbs because suburbs a
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by ta2164 5y ago
If there are so many racist laws in systemically racist USA, you should have no issues pointing out some laws that are racist, no?
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by ta2164 5y ago
Not arguing that, but that is decidedly not racist. It's why educated Blacks in the US are moving back to red Southern states more so than they're moving to blue Northeast and Western ones. It's much cheaper and easier to bui
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by ta2164 5y ago
>A law can be "not racist", but still be crafted with certain intentions in mind; it's easy to exploit certain correlations to achieve a certain end result. Correlation does not imply causation. >But if you want to excl
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by ta2164 5y ago
Nothing stopping Blacks or Hispanics from moving to the suburbs except for the laws of supply and demand. It's no secret that Asians (a historically disadvantaged POC) flock to the suburbs. By definition not racist.
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by ta2164 5y ago
>Fear is a great driver. Not only most people will like to avoid the problem, but it can easily isolate anyone that wants to talk about it. This perfectly sums up a lot of what I see at work. People are so scared of upsetting activists a