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| Capitalism | |
| 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 | |
| [quote]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. | |
| https://www.amren.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/12/mexico-race-1.jpg | |
| https://www.amren.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/12/mesican_race-2.jpg[/quote] | |
| Source : | |
| Posted on December 14, 2017. Study Reveals Racial Inequality in | |
| Mexico, Disproving Its �Race-Blind� Rhetoric | |
| https://www.amren.com/news/2017/12/study-reveals-racial-inequality-mexico-dispr… | |
| The "Whites" don't know how to govern a people correctly | |
| #Post#: 24348-------------------------------------------------- | |
| Re: Anti-gentrification | |
| By: antihellenistic Date: December 7, 2023, 5:37 pm | |
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| How gentrification were made | |
| [quote]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. | |
| ... | |
| 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.[/quote] | |
| Source : | |
| IQ and the Wealth of Nations -- Richard Lynn, Tatu Vanhanen -- | |
| Human Evolution, Behavior, and Intelligence, 2002 -- Greenwood | |
| Publishing Group page 55, 56, 57 | |
| #Post#: 24349-------------------------------------------------- | |
| Re: Anti-gentrification | |
| 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: | |
| https://twitter.com/Culture_Crit/status/1685613481737768962 | |
| [img] | |
| https://pbs.twimg.com/media/F2SAcrcWIAAHXEY?format=jpg&name=medium[/img] | |
| 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. | |
| #Post#: 24350-------------------------------------------------- | |
| Re: Anti-gentrification | |
| By: antihellenistic Date: December 7, 2023, 8:45 pm | |
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| [quote]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.[/quote] | |
| 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. | |
| #Post#: 24353-------------------------------------------------- | |
| Re: Anti-gentrification | |
| 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: | |
| https://trueleft.createaforum.com/true-left-vs-right/western-civilization-is-ug… | |
| #Post#: 24358-------------------------------------------------- | |
| Re: Anti-gentrification | |
| By: antihellenistic Date: December 8, 2023, 1:44 am | |
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| [quote]Yes, but what if the people in government also have bad | |
| taste? Then we get stuff like this: | |
| https://trueleft.createaforum.com/true-left-vs-right/western-civilization-is-ug… | |
| 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 | |
| #Post#: 24582-------------------------------------------------- | |
| Re: Anti-gentrification | |
| By: 90sRetroFan Date: December 25, 2023, 1:20 pm | |
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| Nice! | |
| https://news.yahoo.com/vandals-hit-billboard-targeting-antisemitism-121201566.h… | |
| [quote]WORCESTER - An anti-Hamas billboard on Interstate 290 | |
| west in Worcester between the Interstate 190 interchange and the | |
| Lincoln Square exit has been vandalized. | |
| 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.[/quote] | |
| [img] | |
| https://s.yimg.com/ny/api/res/1.2/QLmJpO79G__8gAMUEBOQoA--/YXBwaWQ9aGlnaGxhbmRl… | |
| Who doesn't like the alteration? | |
| [quote]"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."[/quote] | |
| https://trueleft.createaforum.com/true-left-vs-false-left/jews-have-nothing-in-… | |
| #Post#: 24968-------------------------------------------------- | |
| Re: Anti-gentrification | |
| By: 90sRetroFan Date: February 4, 2024, 3:51 pm | |
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| https://www.theatlantic.com/books/archive/2024/01/benjamin-herold-disillusioned… | |
| [quote]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.[/quote] | |
| Where have we seen this before? | |
| [quote]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!�[/quote] | |
| 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. | |
| [quote]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.[/quote] | |
| The only way to put an end to this is to prevent the perpetrator | |
| gene pool from reproducing. | |
| #Post#: 25126-------------------------------------------------- | |
| Re: Anti-gentrification | |
| By: 90sRetroFan Date: February 19, 2024, 8:00 pm | |
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| Our enemies show us what successful anti-gentrification looks | |
| like: | |
| https://twitter.com/iamyesyouareno/status/1743715955904036879<br | |
| />(video at enemy link) | |
| More of the same, please! :) | |
| See also: | |
| https://trueleft.createaforum.com/issues/operation-gaddafi/ | |
| #Post#: 26087-------------------------------------------------- | |
| Re: Anti-gentrification | |
| By: 90sRetroFan Date: April 23, 2024, 8:05 pm | |
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| Good work! | |
| https://nypost.com/2024/04/21/us-news/dogs-slammed-as-settler-colonial-as-pooch… | |
| [quote]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[/quote] | |
| For reference: | |
| https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pet#Victorian_era:_the_rise_of_modern_pet_keeping | |
| [quote]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] | |
| 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][/quote] | |
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