How to know if where you live is “up and coming”: fried chicken vs. coffee shops

Post by protomyth » Thu, Oct 15, 2015, 5:56 PM UTC

drdeca wrote: post #184

WildUtah wrote: post #180

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Jogging, fried chicken, and coffee shops. Yup. You'd be paying fines and penalties if you posted this from the USA. I doubt there'd be criminal prosecution under 42 USC unless you repeatedly continued posting this kind of content after warnings, but that is not legal advice. It's illegal for anyone involved in the housing or real estate industries to propagate racist information. Also it's illegal to advocate racist…

Wait, What? There is a law against giving racist real estate advice? That, isn't actually true, is it? You are joking? Is that actually true?!

Post by dragonwriter » Thu, Oct 15, 2015, 5:59 PM UTC

protomyth wrote: post #231

dragonwriter wrote: post #206

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The policies enforced by particular offices (often based on an excess of caution, and often based on mythology of law rather than actual legal advice) are a different thing than the law. It absolutely is not illegal to provide answers to that question more directly when selling real estate (and, in fact, most agents I've dealt with or encountered will, though rather than providing their opinion they will rather direc…

"It absolutely is not illegal to provide answers to that question more directly when selling real estate" As applied in the US (not the original article, but I suspect where nsxwolf is talking about), the Federal Fair Housing Act (Title VIII of the Civil Rights Act of 1968) would prohibit certain questions from being answered. http://www.jmls.edu/clinics/fairhousing/pdf/fair-housing-pri...

Post by biomcgary » Thu, Oct 15, 2015, 6:12 PM UTC

nwienert wrote: post #221

jqm wrote: post #212

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While not necessarily "excuse making", the original poster gives a reason he thinks poor people don't exercise (because they are working too hard). I believe, in general, the reasons poor people don't exercise are not that at all, but results from the same types of behaviors and attitudes that encourage poverty. I'm not assigning cause necessarily... I agree when you say the problem is likely often cultural. People f…

Woah, I think you're way off here. All class systems are a result of how you're raised. Raise a "poor" person in a rich family and they will be smarter, more healthy, etc. Likewise take a rich baby and put it in a poor family and watch it's environment mold it. Humans in general are striking similar physically. We are all homo-sapiens. It's almost entirely nurture, it was sad to read your comment because to deny that…

Post by [deleted] » Thu, Oct 15, 2015, 6:12 PM UTC

Zergy wrote: post #215

djtriptych wrote: post #183

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Ask a black person if that sounds racist to them. Or does that not matter?

Doesn't matter. A particular group doesn't get to define racism for the rest of the population.

Post by pc86 » Thu, Oct 15, 2015, 6:16 PM UTC

curiousjorge wrote: post #144

smikhanov wrote: post #41

A more interesting indicator that authors may consider is how many people living in the area do jogging. When I moved to London's SE4 postcode three years ago (it's pretty close to Peckham, FWIW), the regeneration of the area has just started and the more middle-class looking people appeared around, the more men and women in running gear were visible in the streets in the morning. Poor on average take worse care of t…

Maybe poor on average can't exercise or buy health shit because they are working enriching those fucking joggers lives by working in factories, restaurants, kitchen, toilet and whatever other material whims of the privileged.