Libertarian Thread #2: We Shall Never Die!

Slartibartfast wrote: You're leaving out the likelihood that racists don't concentrate in NYC because it has too many people of color.  Once again historical amnesia is a wonderful thing.  As people of color concentrated in the cities there was white flight to suburbs and beyond.

Not really. You see huge concentrations of ethnicity in cities, aka ghettos. You get these situations where people aren't integrated since they stick to neighborhoods of their own race. However, the proximity forces interaction and resentment between the two groups. In an all X race city where you never see Y race, you have much less to complain about. When race X sees race Y coming into their neighborhood to do some undesirable activity, you see a flare of racism from both X and Y.

In any case though, it doesn't matter. Absent any evidence to suggest otherwise you assume a uniform distribution. That's just what you do. It would be the proper move. It's not leaving out the likelihood of anything; it's simply using the information available in the most logical way.

ghetto |ˈgetō|
noun ( pl. -tos or -toes)
a part of a city, esp. a slum area, occupied by a minority group or groups.
• historical the Jewish quarter in a city : the Warsaw Ghetto.
• an isolated or segregated group or area : the relative security of the gay ghetto.


The name need not apply to a crime infested or poor area. Historically, it did not do so. It came to be associated with  undesirable areas because of WASP xenophobia during periods of massive immigration.


Edited by Equality 7-2521 - February 11 2012 at 07:13

That a city be a cosmopolitan mixture of races doesn't necessarily mean it will be devoid of racism. Sometimes the opposite happens. Post WW1 Vienna is a good example, if a little old.

Slartibartfast wrote: You're leaving out the likelihood that racists don't concentrate in NYC because it has too many people of color.  Once again historical amnesia is a wonderful thing.  As people of color concentrated in the cities there was white flight to suburbs and beyond.

 

Slarti has a point.  NYC is a cosmopolitan era with a different diaspora than Western Pennsylvania.  MoM also has a point too though in regards to population.  So you need to regard both of those.

EVERBODY STOP FIGHTING

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Comedian Doug Stanhope on freedom:

Now in FoxNews they are all crying because last night in the grammys someone had a song about exorcism and a coreography to match, this supposedly being an offense against christians and catholics (mostly) and an "abuse of the first amendment"....

Gosh... No wonder people believe anyone who watches that channel is mentally challenged...

Someone could make a good one those for Anarchist.