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Re: Sorry, your wife is Indian, landlord won’t rent to you

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Post by qikInNdOutReply »

qikInNdOutReply wrote: post #50

Brings to mind those poor african textile traders that were force evicted during the whole "covid was brought in by foreigners" hysteria in china. Which is tolerated and encouraged by the censors. Yes the world is a horrifying racist place with only america and europe discussing and fighting it openly. Shame based cultures seem to be more prone to sweaping such problems under the rug instead of solving them.

I wonder how our culture looks from that point of view. Like some freak who is into self-humilation? I also do not understand how one can innovate in a culture that subscribes to harmony (aka societal peace) as a basic value. Any creative destruction is disharmonious. Google maps destroyed the atlas-schoolbook buisness and there was nothing nice or harmonious about that..

Just better maps, free of charge, a new ecosystem springing up around what replaced the old eco system..

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Post by bayesian_horse »

starkd wrote: post #116
christophilus wrote: post #102

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They exist. I once helped a needy young man in Seattle by taking him to get some food. The lady at the checkout counter was black, and oh, man did he spout some shit. It turned out he was a legit neonazi. I actually picked his brain for quite a while to get an idea of the “why” behind things. Anyway, this experience is the reason I roll my eyes when someone calls ____ a nazi. There are legit nazis in the world, and t…

I don't deny they exist, but they have been marginalized in society. They don't hold any significant power in terms of holding people back.

If you believe that, you should look more into the history of ethnic discrimination in the US. "Holding people back" is a systemic issue, and one that is still present.

But it is already bad enough that Afroamericans had been kept from acquiring wealth by various means, judicial and extrajudicial for much of the last century. They are closing the wealth gap, but extremely slowly.

Ignoring that history is part of a basically racist system.

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Post by lashkhi »

Bhilai wrote: post #123

For westerners in thread complaining about the smell of Indian food/curries, guess what, your food smells too (meat being cooked/bbq'ed smells yucky to vegetarians who have never experienced meat.) Even your bodies have a rotten cheesy odor. I am not being racist, I dont care what anyone cooks or eats. Its just a matter of perspective and I am providing a perspective that you have probably not heard about yourselves.

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Post by dismantlethesun »

pandaman wrote: post #201
dismantlethesun wrote: post #119

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I almost prefer overt racism to what happens in the USA. My friend had gotten married was looking to buy a house, and his wife having a lot of trouble driving out to a location only to hear it was off the market. So he decided the he would take some of the burden from his wife, and visit places after work himself. Fortubately, he didn't coordinate this well enough so he ended up going to some off the same places as h…

I am curious about the technical details. Your friend's wife walks into an open house, perhaps with a sign outside, there is an agent with cookies and leaflets inside and the agent tells her the house is off the market and he or she is just chilling there for no reason at all?

Yes they say the house was just sold or the owner has just gotten news that’s taken it off the market.

This isn’t really unusual when you are buying in a hot market. When I was getting my place it happened several times and the realtor would usually offer to give me an appointment at another place or just take my number so they’d call me if the current deal fell through.

I think the realtors don’t leave specifically for that reason: it serves as lead generation for their other properties.

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Post by pandaman »

dismantlethesun wrote: post #234
pandaman wrote: post #201

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I am curious about the technical details. Your friend's wife walks into an open house, perhaps with a sign outside, there is an agent with cookies and leaflets inside and the agent tells her the house is off the market and he or she is just chilling there for no reason at all?

Yes they say the house was just sold or the owner has just gotten news that’s taken it off the market. This isn’t really unusual when you are buying in a hot market. When I was getting my place it happened several times and the realtor would usually offer to give me an appointment at another place or just take my number so they’d call me if the current deal fell through. I think the realtors don’t leave specifically…

It would be extremely unusual especially in a hot market. When I shopped for a house in such a market (the house I got had ~20 offers) in roughly half of open houses I was not the only person looking. The ones where I was the only one looking were mostly unattended. If the house is under contract already it's showing in the MLS, and if it's being offered through MLS one can lose license for refusing to show it.

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Post by LightG »

boomboomsubban wrote: post #212
LightG wrote: post #28

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Why? Not knowing anything about any of this except I know the type of discrimination happens. If a company is aware and possibly works against it happening, why wouldn't I say to myself, "You know what? These guys aren't @sssholes, let me go ahead and search their listings".

I inherently question anyone paying to say how great they are. I'd be fine with a normal ad that says "we practice discrimination free lending" but hiring a media company to write a "news story" like this is sketchy.

Normally, I'd take that as fair point. It is. However, I'm a bit combative these days. Discrimination isn't changing or seems to be going into reverse. I'm fine with a company aggressively promoting that side of themselves. I'm sorry, I'm done being quiet about that sh!t anymore.

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Post by [deleted] »

LightG wrote: post #236
boomboomsubban wrote: post #212

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I inherently question anyone paying to say how great they are. I'd be fine with a normal ad that says "we practice discrimination free lending" but hiring a media company to write a "news story" like this is sketchy.

Normally, I'd take that as fair point. It is. However, I'm a bit combative these days. Discrimination isn't changing or seems to be going into reverse. I'm fine with a company aggressively promoting that side of themselves. I'm sorry, I'm done being quiet about that sh!t anymore.

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Re: Sorry, your wife is Indian, landlord won’t rent to you

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Post by ignoramous »

bhupy wrote: post #199
ignoramous wrote: post #195

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I presume your sense of belonging may have something do with your socio-economic status.

It certainly does! But that's different from racism, which is the entire point. I have never felt like my race has been a barrier to reaching my current socio-economic status, and do not believe there to be some magic socio-economic ceiling imposed by the accident of my skin color / heritage. A middle-class Indian, Chinese, Vietnamese, or Latino doesn't have much (if any) disadvantage relative to a white American fro…

Ah, I get your point, now. Thanks.
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