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Sounds like the locals are just racist then?
by indoorfish 3mo ago
Sounds like the locals are just racist then?
- megous 3mo agoBeing a rich fuck used to 5x+ the local median income is not a "race". So it can't be racism.
- AnimalMuppet 3mo agoI suspect that indoorfish's point is that, in the US, when similar situations happen, and get similar reactions, then accusations of racism fly.
- jasonfarnon 3mo agopeople in the US complaining about gentrification get called racist?
- defrost 3mo agoPeople in the US stating that black lives matter get called racist. So, yes.
- fooqux 3mo agoThat topic at least involves matters of race though? Not saying you're wrong, just that it's perhaps not the best counter-argument.
- defrost 3mo agoThe point is that people in the US absolutely do get called racist all the time for all manner of things. The question was asked if some US person might be called racist for having an opinion about gentrification that seemingly has little to do with race, and the answer is yes, yes they have been.
- sailfast 3mo agoNo, not generally. That said, there can be some "Oh yeah - well if you're insinuating that white people are displacing black people then YOU are the racist" which is just... not the same thing. One view of the world may incorporate a significant accommodation and acknowledgement of historical discrimination, enslavement, red-lining, you name it. The other is... technically correct I suppose, but complete horseshit on the merits until we start to see significant, systemic harm going the other direction as a result of race. But that's just, like, my opinion man.