(September 14, 2016 at 2:10 pm)ChadWooters Wrote: I was being hyperbolic about the flippant way Democrats make accusations of racism not making any reference to litigation which is an oversight on my part.
Goalposts moved, hand-waving engaged...
(September 14, 2016 at 2:10 pm)ChadWooters Wrote: You are right. If you discourage welfare recipients from renting in a luxury apartment building and a minority group is disproportionately receiving welfare then fewer minority applicants would be accepted. In 1973 very few businesses took much into consideration disparate effects in their policies. That kind of awareness has taken time to develop and American society is to be commended, not reviled, for making steady gains in achieving civil equality. If you want to make the disparate effect of applying race-neutral standards 43 years ago, during a time of widespread limited awareness of disparate effects a disqualifying circumstance, then you have your standards. I am more concerned about current political corruption and official misconduct that happened within the last 4 years than misguided rental policies from more than 40 years ago.
Okay, now I'm pretty sure you didn't read any of the links, and you're desperately grasping at straws to dismiss any accusations of racism as a liberal smear campaign.
Firstly, they marked the applications with a "C." That's an odd choice if welfare was the concern. Secondly, the government sent in black people that were told nothing was available while the white people were sold a place afterwards. There was no mention of welfare. Thirdly, your post amounts to nothing more than "Hey, it was 1973. Everyone was racist." And let's not forget that he was investigated by the Nixon administration. How fucking racist do you have to be for that to happen?
Look, he looks like a duck, walks like a duck and quacks like a duck, and you're sitting here trying to tell everyone that calling him a duck is just liberals being liberals. There's no nicer way to put this, but stop being dense.
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