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white liberal hypocrisy called out by The Atlantic
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2023 Jul 23, 2:43pm 496 views 3 comments
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Ceffer
2023 Jul 23, 3:48pm
Ceffer
2023 Jul 23, 3:48pm
It's the far left criticizing the smug, lip service of the not so far left. Time to air drop those Section 8 egalitarians so these blue, segregated suburbs can enjoy the pleasures of diversity, like barred windows, tall fences with barbed wire and broken glass, and armed escorts outside of the gates?
Remember, they always eventually eat their own.
Remember, they always eventually eat their own.
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AD
2023 Jul 23, 5:07pm
AD
2023 Jul 23, 5:07pm
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Yeah, I think of the white and Asian-privileged enclaves of California when I think about how zoning is exploited.
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Yeah, I think of the white and Asian-privileged enclaves of California when I think about how zoning is exploited.
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Liberal Suburbs Have Their Own Border Wall
Residents of rich blue towns talk about inclusion, but their laws do the opposite.
By Richard D. Kahlenberg
The New York City suburb of Scarsdale, located in Westchester County, New York, is one of the country’s wealthiest communities, and its residents are reliably liberal. In 2020, three-quarters of Scarsdale voters cast ballots for Joe Biden over Donald Trump. One can safely presume that few Scarsdale residents are ardent backers of Trump’s wall on the Mexican border. But many of them support a less visible kind of wall, erected by zoning regulations that ban multifamily housing and keep non-wealthy people, many of them people of color, out of their community.
Across the country, a lot of good white liberals, people who purchase copies of White Fragility and decry the U.S. Supreme Court for ending affirmative action, sleep every night in exclusive suburbs that socially engineer economic (and thereby racial) segregation by government edict. The huge inequalities between upscale municipalities and their poorer neighbors didn’t just happen; they are in large measure the product of laws that are hard to square with the inclusive In This House, We Believe signs on lawns in many highly educated, deep-blue suburbs.