Been seeing it a lot lately, wondering if there are any good takedowns of the concept.
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Whereas white people who are fortunate enough move in to a black neighborhood are welcomed with nothing but open arms and friendly smiles.
Even granting your premise, which I don't, unless you've got solid numbers to back it up, all you're describing is the same tribalism that every group of humans throughout history has displayed.
I think it's a matter of, one person said something unkind, and the next thing you know, the person who didn't like what was said is claiming "everyone is always" "saying stuff". And then it becomes "true" in the popular mind, because there was a scene on TV about it, and so on, and so forth.
Just saw this bullshit, second season of Umbrella Academy. Yeah, the whites were yelling .. but they weren't shanking, like the blacks in a blacks-only place would do ...
The second season of umbrella academy was one of the most blatantly woke bait-and-switches I've ever experienced. The first season was like a behind-the-music documentary about a dysfunctional team of retired child superheroes. Then they used time travel to turn the second season into a multi-arc history lecture about intersectional oppression. The white people of the south are cartoon caricatures of racism, the lesbian who destroys her family to fuck a trans girl is a hero, the tragicly doomed romance is literally super gay, and the new most powerful character is obviously a woman of color. I suffered through it for the story of Five, which is genuinely compelling thanks to a legitimately great performance. I will probably give season 3 about two episodes to ditch the socjus.
Yes, that's what I'm getting out of it. I like Five and Pogo, and that's about it now.
Oh, and don't forget they also had to slip a fucking retard kid in there, too.
That's not the data I was talking about. I was referring specifically to the treatment of black neighbors by white people vs the treatment of white neighbors by black people.
Also, you're ignoring the fact that the only reason that the wealth "accumulates" in the "white" communities vs. "black" communities homes is that the people who live in them set the fucking value. If your community is shit, properties in it will be worth shit. The only people who can fix the communities are the people who live in them. Even if black people were forced to live in their own communities and denied every single opportunity to move out of them, all they have to do is not turn them into a crime ridden hell hole.
Now if you want to talk about the cycle of poverty and how welfare (from Democrats) has reinforced that, and how incentivizing fatherless homes leads to all kinds of problems, and that none of this is race specific, then sure. We can have that discussion. But the reason black wealth has stagnated isn't because of "white people" or "redlining" or any of that shit.
And if you want to bring up Black Wall Street and how it got destroyed, all I have to say is, well, where's Black Wall Street 2? You're telling me that because a hundred years ago there was a race war between a couple of small towns and the white people won, that black people everywhere in the US have just given up? Because, despite all the data pointing in the opposite direction, black people are just too afraid of white people to try again? Fuck off.
So sorry, but I do not grant a single one of your premises. You're just hand-waving and ignoring the actual problem.