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Capitalism
DIR By: antihellenistic
Date: December 4, 2023, 9:40 pm
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[size=12pt][color=red]Capitalism and Gentrification never solve
racial problem on all time
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> We were fascinated to see that the Mexico data clearly showed
people with white skin completing more years of schooling than
those with browner skin — 10 years versus 6.5. That’s a stunning
45 percent gap in educational achievement between the darkest-
and lightest-skinned Mexicans.
>
> Darker-skinned Mexicans surveyed had also completed fewer
years of schooling than the survey’s average nationwide finding
of nine years.
>
> Wealth, we found, similarly correlates to skin color. The
average Mexican household income in the LAPOP study was about
US$193 a month. Citizens with lighter skin reported bringing in
more than that — on average, $220 a month. Darker-skinned
citizens, on the other hand, earned just $137 — 41.5 percent
less than their white compatriots.
>
> Overall, populations identified as having the lightest skin
fall into the highest wealth brackets in Mexico, while those
with the darkest skin are concentrated at the bottom. These
dynamics, other studies have found, seem to persist across
generations.
>
> Similar disparities emerged when we examined other measures of
economic well-being, such as material possessions — like
refrigerators and telephones — and basic amenities.
>
> For example, only 2.5 percent of white Mexicans surveyed by
Vanderbilt’s pollsters don’t have running water, while upwards
of 11 percent of dark-skinned citizens said they lack this basic
necessity. Likewise, just 7.5 percent of white Mexicans reported
lacking an in-home bathroom, versus 20 percent of dark-skinned
Mexicans.
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Source :
Posted on December 14, 2017. Study Reveals Racial Inequality in
Mexico, Disproving Its ‘Race-Blind’ Rhetoric
HTML https://www.amren.com/news/2017/12/study-reveals-racial-inequality-mexico-disproving-race-blind-rhetoric/
The "Whites" don't know how to govern a people correctly
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Re: Anti-gentrification
DIR By: antihellenistic
Date: December 7, 2023, 5:37 pm
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How gentrification were made
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> In Burt’s study (1937) carried out in the 1930s, the most
affluent districts were Hampstead, Westminster, and Chelsea, and
the most impoverished were the east-end districts of Stepney,
Shoreditch, and Bethnel Green. These differences are still
present seventy years later. In the regions of the British Isles
and France, selective migration by intelligence has led to a
concentration of the highest level of intelligence in the
capital cities of London and Paris, as shown in Lynn (1980).
What has evidently occurred is that over the course of
centuries, individuals with high intelligence attracted by the
opportunities for acquiring fame and fortune, have migrated to
these capital cities. Once they have settled in the capital
cities, they have left descendants who have inherited their high
IQs, leading to a higher average level of intelligence in the
capital cities than in the remainder of the country.
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>
> ...
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>
> Because intelligence is determined by both genetic and
environmental factors, those individuals with high intelligence
who have migrated into the more affluent districts of the cities
and regions of countries will have possessed both the genetic
and environmental components of intelligence. This will have led
to a geographical and genetic segregation of the sub-populations
by intelligence of a similar kind to the socioeconomic and
genetic segregation that we discuss in Chapter 4. Once the sub
populations of the districts of cities and the regions of
nations have become segregated by intelligence, environmental
factors will reinforce the genetic differences between the sub
populations in so far as the sub-populations with high
intelligence will provide their children with the environmental
and developmental advantages of intelligence through the process
of positive feedback described in the preceding section.
>
> ...
>
> In this chapter, a number of examples have been presented
showing that the average intelligence levels of the
sub-populations in the districts of cities and the regions of
countries is positively associated with group earnings,
educational attainment and intellectual achievement, and is
negatively associated with group unemployment, crime, and
mortality. These differences in the intelligence of
sub-populations have come about through selective migration of
the more intelligent into the more affluent districts of cities
and regions of countries over a period of several generations,
thus leading to genetic differences between the populations.
These genetic differences are reinforced by the environmental
advantages, which more intelligent populations are able to give
their children through the process of genotype-environment
correlation. The evidence presented in this chapter is an
extension of the data on individuals reviewed in Chapters 3 and
4 and shows that the intelligence levels of groups are important
determinants of per capita group earnings and other economic and
social phenomena.
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Source :
IQ and the Wealth of Nations -- Richard Lynn, Tatu Vanhanen --
Human Evolution, Behavior, and Intelligence, 2002 -- Greenwood
Publishing Group page 55, 56, 57
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Re: Anti-gentrification
DIR By: 90sRetroFan
Date: December 7, 2023, 6:47 pm
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The real question is: why do the gentrifiers have such bad
taste? Compare before and after gentrification:
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Do high IQ test scores cause bad taste? I doubt this (obvious
counterexamples: Counterculture artists). My guess is that the
smart people with good taste would be the ones who do not like
the idea of moving into gentrifying neighbourhoods in the first
place, thus unfortunately leaving those neighbourhoods in the
hands of the smart people with bad taste, with the consequences
seen in the picture.
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Re: Anti-gentrification
DIR By: antihellenistic
Date: December 7, 2023, 8:45 pm
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> My guess is that the smart people with good taste would be the
ones who do not like the idea of moving into gentrifying
neighborhoods in the first place, thus, unfortunately, leaving
those neighborhoods in the hands of the smart people with bad
taste, with the consequences seen in the picture.
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Leftist pacifism is the fatal problem then. We cannot teach
people to do anything which results in cheap price commodities,
so social integration will be achieved rather than social
separation. Social democracy's people's welfare program also
does not end capitalism and gentrification too. We cannot trust
education anymore. If social integration can be achieved through
voluntary action, then we don't need government, law
enforcement, and national system.
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Re: Anti-gentrification
DIR By: 90sRetroFan
Date: December 7, 2023, 10:17 pm
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Yes, but what if the people in government also have bad taste?
Then we get stuff like this:
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Re: Anti-gentrification
DIR By: antihellenistic
Date: December 8, 2023, 1:44 am
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> Yes, but what if the people in government also have bad taste?
Then we get stuff like this:
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We must make the leftist-oriented individual to control the
state. We can select them through analyzing their behaviour,
bloodlines, genetics, their associates, and their ability to
understand political science
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Re: Anti-gentrification
DIR By: 90sRetroFan
Date: December 25, 2023, 1:20 pm
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Nice!
HTML https://news.yahoo.com/vandals-hit-billboard-targeting-antisemitism-121201566.html
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> WORCESTER - An anti-Hamas billboard on Interstate 290 west in
Worcester between the Interstate 190 interchange and the Lincoln
Square exit has been vandalized.
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> The billboard, distributed by the Jewish organization
JewBelong, is hot pink and depicts a single sentence: "Let's be
clear: Hamas is your problem too" in white letters. The
billboards are part of a national campaign to raise awareness
about antisemitism.
>
> In recent days, vandals painted over the words "your problem
too" with pink paint and finished the sentence with "FREEING
PALESTINE" in black writing. They added "Israel murdered 25,000
people" in the billboard's bottom right corner.
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Who doesn't like the alteration?
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> "The pro-Hamas graffiti on this billboard is a grotesque
distortion of reality," said Steven Schimmel, executive director
of the Jewish Federation of Central Massachusetts. "This
vandalism must be handled with swift action and strong
condemnation. Jewish Federation officials are in communication
with Worcester police, ADL and city officials."
--- End Quote ---
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Re: Anti-gentrification
DIR By: 90sRetroFan
Date: February 4, 2024, 3:51 pm
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HTML https://www.theatlantic.com/books/archive/2024/01/benjamin-herold-disillusioned-suburbs/677229/
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> The Suburbs Have Become a Ponzi Scheme
>
> A new book looks at how white families depleted the resources
of the suburbs and left more recent Black and Latino residents
“holding the bag.”
> ...
> Nearly 25 years ago, I reported on the changing demographics
of Cicero, a working-class suburb just west of Chicago. For
years, the town, which was made up mostly of Italian and Eastern
European American families, worked hard at keeping Black people
from settling there. In 1951, when a Black family moved in, a
mob entered their apartment, tore it up, and pushed a piano out
a window. Police watched and did nothing. The governor had to
call out the National Guard. By 2000, the nearby factories,
which were the economic foundation of the community, had begun
to close. White families moved out and left behind a distressed,
struggling town to its new residents—Latinos, who now made up
three-quarters of the population. It felt wrong. It felt like
the white families got to enjoy the prosperity of the place, and
then left it to these newcomers to figure out how to repair
aging infrastructure and make up for the lost tax revenues.
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Where have we seen this before?
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> Herold opens his book by visiting his hometown, a Pittsburgh
suburb called Penn Hills. In many ways, the story of this
particular suburb captures it all. When Herold’s family moved
here in 1976, the average home price in 2020 dollars was
$148,000. Now it’s $95,000. Herold knocks on a door just down
the street from where he grew up, and there meets Bethany Smith,
who has recently purchased the house with her mom. She’s single
and Black and undaunted, raising a son, Jackson, for whom she
wants the absolute best, which means finding a well-resourced,
nurturing school and buying a home, an investment that will
serve as a foundation to building wealth. (She’s also gotten
priced out of her gentrifying neighborhood in Pittsburgh.)
>
> But Bethany has walked into a mess of a town. Signs of wear
and tear are everywhere: most notably, a collapsing sewer system
and a school district that is $9 million in debt. According to
Herold, the town didn’t invest in infrastructure improvements,
kicking any needed repairs down the road. Financial
mismanagement is everywhere.
> ...
> At the peak of its prosperity, in the 1960s and ’70s, the town
was 99 percent white, and local leaders borrowed large sums of
money and took state and federal subsidies to quickly build its
infrastructure. (Herold points out that many of our suburbs were
built with endowed money, either government-constructed
infrastructure such as expressways or cheap mortgages through
federal loan guarantees.) To keep taxes low, Ferguson postponed
budgeting for long-term maintenance. By 2013, Herold writes, the
town was in steep decline
> ...
> White people had left long ago, leaving the new residents—the
town was now two-thirds Black—with the waste and debris of their
prosperity.
> ...
> ...
> “We build a place, we use up the resources, and when the
returns start diminishing, we move on, leaving a geographic time
bomb in our wake!”
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They have also done this all over this planet as a whole.
They also plan to do this on an intergalactic scale in the
future. But I digress.
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> For generations, upwardly mobile white families have extracted
opportunity from the nation’s heavily subsidized suburbs, then
moved on before the bills for maintenance and repair came due,
leaving the mostly Black and Brown families who followed to
clean up the ensuing mess.
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The only way to put an end to this is to prevent the perpetrator
gene pool from reproducing.
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Re: Anti-gentrification
DIR By: 90sRetroFan
Date: February 19, 2024, 8:00 pm
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Our enemies show us what successful anti-gentrification looks
like:
HTML https://twitter.com/iamyesyouareno/status/1743715955904036879<br
/>(video at enemy link)
More of the same, please! :)
See also:
HTML https://trueleft.createaforum.com/issues/operation-gaddafi/
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Re: Anti-gentrification
DIR By: 90sRetroFan
Date: April 23, 2024, 8:05 pm
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Good work!
HTML https://nypost.com/2024/04/21/us-news/dogs-slammed-as-settler-colonial-as-pooches-and-owners-blamed-for-gentrifying-nyc-by-woke-activists/
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> City-dwelling dog owners are marking their “colonial”
territory with pooches who are “gentrifying” neighborhoods
> ...
> “Dogs in large cities are essentially settler-colonial—a way
for their owners to move into and occupy more of the urban space
than they are allotted while making it everyone else’s problem,”
the tweet reads in part.
>
> According to the New York Times, “settler-colonial” is a term
of art recently adopted in far-left activist circles to decry
everything from gentrification to poor environmental stewardship
to capitalism itself.
>
> The term is far from benign, writes Wall Street Journal editor
Adam Kirsch, who notes that the phrase has increasingly crept
into the most virulent brands of anti-Israel rhetoric
> ...
> “Settler-colonial” or variants frequently accompany slogans
categorized by Anti-Defamation League as antisemitic
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For reference:
HTML https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pet#Victorian_era:_the_rise_of_modern_pet_keeping
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> Throughout the 17th and 18th-century pet keeping in the modern
sense gradually became accepted throughout Britain. Initially,
aristocrats kept dogs for both companionship and hunting. Thus,
pet keeping was a sign of elitism within society. By the 19th
century, the rise of the middle class stimulated the development
of pet keeping and it became inscribed within the bourgeois
culture.[69]
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> Economy
>
> As the popularity of pet-keeping in the modern sense rose
during the Victorian era, animals became a fixture within urban
culture as commodities and decorative objects.[70] Pet keeping
generated a commercial opportunity for entrepreneurs. By the
mid-19th century, nearly twenty thousand street vendors in
London dealt with live animals.[71] The popularity of animals
also developed a demand for animal goods such as accessories and
guides for pet keeping. Pet care developed into a big business
by the end of the nineteenth century.[72]
>
> Profiteers also sought out pet stealing as a means for
economic gain. Utilizing the affection that owners had for their
pets, professional dog stealers would capture animals and hold
them for ransom.[73] The development of dog stealing reflects
the increased value of pets. Pets gradually became defined as
the property of their owners. Laws were created that punished
offenders for their burglary.[74]
>
> Social
>
> Pets and animals also had social and cultural implications
throughout the nineteenth century. The categorization of dogs by
their breeds reflected the hierarchical, social order of the
Victorian era. The pedigree of a dog represented the high status
and lineage of their owners and reinforced social
stratification.[75] Middle-class owners valued the ability to
associate with the upper-class through ownership of their pets.
The ability to care for a pet signified respectability and the
capability to be self-sufficient.[76] According to Harriet
Ritvo, the identification of "elite animal and elite owner was
not a confirmation of the owner's status but a way of redefining
it."[77]
>
> Entertainment
>
> The popularity of dog and pet keeping generated animal fancy.
Dog fanciers showed enthusiasm for owning pets, breeding dogs,
and showing dogs in various shows. The first dog show took place
on 28 June 1859 in Newcastle and focused mostly on sporting and
hunting dogs.[78] However, pet owners produced an eagerness to
demonstrate their pets as well as have an outlet to compete.[79]
Thus, pet animals gradually were included within dog shows. The
first large show, which would host one thousand entries, took
place in Chelsea in 1863.[80] The Kennel Club was created in
1873 to ensure fairness and organization within dog shows. The
development of the Stud Book by the Kennel Club defined
policies, presented a national registry system of purebred dogs,
and essentially institutionalized dog shows.[81]
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