Comment on Has any country actually _solved_ the housing crisis?

• communist@lemmy.frozeninferno.xyz ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  one of the main reasons people are against state housing is because people with the wrong skin color might get it

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  • Bender@sopuli.xyz ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    I was going to let him say something obtusely racist and then roast him, but this works too.

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    • DragonTypeWyvern@midwest.social ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      They literally can’t help themselves

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  • adespoton@lemmy.ca ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    It’s not always quite so clear-cut racist. Often it’s more about social norms and food choices. When everyone shares an insular culture, it’s easier to live near each other without having to be actively tolerant of people’s differences. And the social nets that ARE set up are more likely to work for people with a shared cultural background.

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    • hungryphrog@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Shut uppppp. I live in a building that has a lot of immigrants (mostly students) and we get along just fine. That “oh I’m not racist, different cultures just can’t fit together” argument is bullshit, and even if people from different cultures don’t get along too well, it’s still better than them being outside when it’s -20 degrees.

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      • chunkystyles@sopuli.xyz ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        Also as if people of the “same culture” aren’t equally as hard to live around.

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    • prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      I’m sorry, food choices? Are you literally making a “but they smell” argument?

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    • Bender@sopuli.xyz ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Hot take: blatant racism and veiled racism are equally bad reasons for a country to have poor housing policy.

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      • adespoton@lemmy.ca ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        I’m pretty sure ALL reasons are bad reasons? It doesn’t stop humans from generally being racist when it comes to housing. Which is a shame; you grow a lot more as a person when you live next to people from other cultures.

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    • frostysauce@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Do you often find yourself having to be “actively tolerant” of people’s differences?

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      • adespoton@lemmy.ca ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        Funny how so many people took that. Pointing out that people are, as a whole, racist, and that it influences how they think about the homeless gets turned into a “here’s my bigotry coming out to tell you why it won’t work.”

        I guess I could have framed it more clearly, but once the mods removed it, I figured people would just move on.

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• prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  It doesn’t, that’s just a bullshit, half baked “argument” people like to use when someone points out to them that Scandinavian nations have figured most of this shit out already.

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