• Akasazh@feddit.nl
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    8 hours ago

    Race and money are the most potent predictors of how many fucks the us govt gives about people.

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      1 day ago

      I wonder, why are industrial zoning and low property values also correlated with race?

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        In the modern day, mostly because poor people live in undesirable areas and black people are more likely to be poor. Rich black people aren’t living near chemical plants.

        (Black people became more likely to be poor because of a long history of racism, but social mobility is sufficiently difficult for everyone that they aren’t necessarily staying poor because of on-going racism. They would be living near to chemical plants disproportionately often for generations to come even if all racism disappeared today.)

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      I wouldn’t say it’s fabricated outrage, but an illustration of the relationship between race and economic conditions in the United States.

      They don’t “intentionally” target racial groups, but it just happens that all of the low-income areas are racially stratified due to systemic racism. That’s more where the anger is directed.