Code Words

[Anonymous]

Hey now, pp. OP may be looking for housing among the Spics.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Highly privileged liberally minded white person here. Looking to buy in an up and coming neighborhood to make the most of DC's gentrification but am concerned about exposing my kids to downsides of mixing with poverty.

Can people tell me the code words I need to use in posts so I don't appear racist?

Easy. Don't use any of the words in your opening post.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Highly privileged liberally minded white person here. Looking to buy in an up and coming neighborhood to make the most of DC's gentrification but am concerned about exposing my kids to downsides of mixing with poverty.

Can people tell me the code words I need to use in posts so I don't appear racist?

Too late. You want enough black people in your neighborhood to make houses cheap but not so many in the schools. If you're not a troll, you need to do some serious soul searching, because you're a racist.

How is that a racist attitude? Seem like fairly rational desires for anyone familiar with housing trends and demographic factors associated with relative educational quality. Or is the truth considered hate speech these days?

[Anonymous]

Sheesh.....

[Anonymous]

On this message board, people will manage to turn absolutely *anything* into a "racist" code word.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Highly privileged liberally minded white person here. Looking to buy in an up and coming neighborhood to make the most of DC's gentrification but am concerned about exposing my kids to downsides of mixing with poverty.

Can people tell me the code words I need to use in posts so I don't appear racist?

Too late. You want enough black people in your neighborhood to make houses cheap but not so many in the schools. If you're not a troll, you need to do some serious soul searching, because you're a racist.

How is that a racist attitude? Seem like fairly rational desires for anyone familiar with housing trends and demographic factors associated with relative educational quality. Or is the truth considered hate speech these days?

If you cannot see how that is racist, then I cannot help you. Bless your heart. And God help you.

[Anonymous]

Okay, how is that racist:

Not all black people are poor.
Not all black neighborhoods are crime ridden
You are not God's gift to a neighborhood or a school.
Choose a neighborhood because of your future neighbors not in spite of them or choose a different neighborhood.
Seriously.

Check yourself before you wreck yourself.

[Anonymous]

OP, did you really say "downsides of mixing with poverty"? BWAHAHAH

I think assuming that neighborhoods are being gentrified solely because of poverty gives you away. Some areas with in neighborhoods simply have older residents who aren't necessarily poor, but they aren't sending kids to school either.

[Anonymous]

What are the downsides of dealing with the poors in your opinion?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Okay, how is that racist:

Not all black people are poor.
Not all black neighborhoods are crime ridden
You are not God's gift to a neighborhood or a school.
Choose a neighborhood because of your future neighbors not in spite of them or choose a different neighborhood.
Seriously.

Check yourself before you wreck yourself.

Thank you so much for doing that. I did not have the fortitude to explain.

[Anonymous]

...concerned about exposing my kids to downsides of mixing with poverty.

??? Yeeesh. Do you also worry about the downsides of letting your kids mix with rich kids? The excessive recreational drug use that goes with excessive disposable income? Promiscuity expected and encouraged? Sense that everyone in the world owes them something, because they are the chosen ones?

Poverty and race are not the problems. Ignorance is, regardless of the size of your wallet and the color of your skin.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

...concerned about exposing my kids to downsides of mixing with poverty.

??? Yeeesh. Do you also worry about the downsides of letting your kids mix with rich kids? The excessive recreational drug use that goes with excessive disposable income? Promiscuity expected and encouraged? Sense that everyone in the world owes them something, because they are the chosen ones?

Poverty and race are not the problems. Ignorance is, regardless of the size of your wallet and the color of your skin.

+1 I mean OP didn't you ever see the movie Pretty In Pink?! Take heed.

[Anonymous]

I wish we could all get over this idea that poor kids are somehow the problem in a classroom. I have taught for years in DC charters in a bunch of different elementary grades and the most challenging kids are more often than not the ones from middle class homes where the parents are in denial or resistant to interventions on behalf of their kid. Income level does not determine behavior in a classroom. It is not a question of covering up one's racist assumptions, it is a question of recognizing that those assumptions are fundamentally WRONG.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Okay, how is that racist:

Not all black people are poor.
Not all black neighborhoods are crime ridden
You are not God's gift to a neighborhood or a school.
Choose a neighborhood because of your future neighbors not in spite of them or choose a different neighborhood.
Seriously.

Check yourself before you wreck yourself.

Except for decades people who chose neighborhoods in spite of their neighbors have made serious $$ by doing so, and then patiently waiting. Do you really expect people to pass that up because someone wrote a cool article about Columbusing?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

...concerned about exposing my kids to downsides of mixing with poverty.

??? Yeeesh. Do you also worry about the downsides of letting your kids mix with rich kids? The excessive recreational drug use that goes with excessive disposable income? Promiscuity expected and encouraged? Sense that everyone in the world owes them something, because they are the chosen ones?

Poverty and race are not the problems. Ignorance is, regardless of the size of your wallet and the color of your skin.

Not OP, but sure. Just cause someone doesn't want the worst urban crime, does not mean they want to live in McLean. But unless you want to live in someplace like Burke or Olney (which is really not to everyone's taste) its not so easy to avoid both the decadent rich, and the failed poors, now is it?