SwingingTheLamp

Gosh, so owned. So very, very owned. By such an intelligent and aesthetically pleasing being. What an honor!

Ah, so we judge actions not by their merit, but by who performs them? Or, put another way, if you wrestle a pig, you both get muddy.

What’s hilarious is that I knew that this kind of reply would be forthcoming. Thanks for not disappointing!

You know nothing about me, and very little of what I think, yet you conceptualized my motivations as attacking my enemies, and now you’re telling me what I think.

I just suggested some introspection.

Look at the other replies I’ve received, and think about how people outside of your online community might feel being on the receiving end.

Yes, the reflexive “allies and enemies” framing of the situation does reinforce the image of a harassment campaign.

Oh lordy, ever have one of those moments when you know you’re about to do something dumb, but do it anyway? Well, I would ask that you folks stop for a moment, and observe this situation from an outsider’s perspective. From where I sit, this very thread right here looks like a harassment campaign.

We don’t have to debate to what extent civic planners intended to divide people by color. In his book, The Color of Law, Richard Rothstein just straight-up quoted them. They weren’t shy, and they wrote it down in memos, meeting minutes, and even speeches.

That’s why I say that the suburbs are a product of racism… because the people who created them intended them that way, and said so.

For the economic analysis from the class perspective, look at why suburbs became entrenched, which has a lot to do with the auto industry.

There may be an argument about how the two are linked, but the -ism on display in the second photo is racism. The US built the suburbs quite explicitly to keep black people out by using poverty as a proxy, after the SCOTUS blocked housing segregation.