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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Hey, I wanna build a big toxic factory in your neighborhood.  We gonna bang and clank and spew toxic ash and gases into the air and pollute your water.

Since it's new and different, it's diversity and that's good, right?

Again, what about diversity is beneficial?  Diversity in and of itself isn't beneficial.  Having the Crips move into your neighborhood to start selling drugs brings ethnic diversity but isn't beneficial.  Then having some MS-13 bangers move in to start a turf war with the Crips brings even more ethnic diversity.  But that isn't beneficial either.

Mere fact of diversity isn't beneficial.  Again, what specifically about having homeless people is beneficial?  That there will now be black people in my Ward 6 neighborhood?  Sorry, I already live in a 70% black neighborhood.  Black?  So what.  Try again.  That there will be poor people in my neighborhood?  I already have Greenleaf Gardens and other DCHA public housing full of poor people in my neighborhood.  Sorry, try again.   That I will see homeless people regardless of race in my neighborhood?  Sorry, I already see plenty of homeless people, panhandlers et cetera every day.  And, by the way, before you write me off as some callous and heartless bastard I give a good bit of money to the food bank and other charities for the homeless.  I've also volunteered hours at food kitchens, donated supplies and have done a lot of other things for the homeless.  Yeah, I agree we need to look after the homeless, and I certainly do my part - and having lived in far more diverse places than most people,  don't presume to blow some smoke up my ass about "diversity" and how I "benefit" from having "diversity" and in particular how it's somehow beneficial to have even more concentrated poverty nearby than we already currently do.[/quote]

Agree.  It's mind boggling to try and suggest that the typical person in DC doesn't know diversity.  More than half of the people living in DC came from elsewhere - whether from all corners of the country or other countries.  I have friends and neighbors and coworkers from Nigeria, the Caribbean, Korea, Peru, you name it.  I have friends and neighbors and coworkers who are black, latino, asian, native American, they are from the west coast, from NYC, from the midwest, from Alaska, from the southwest, you name it.  I have friends and neighbors and coworkers who came from poverty, who came from money, friends and neighbors and coworkers who served overseas in the military, in the peace corps, in any number of NGOs and aid organizations.  And my own background isn't all that different, I lived for years overseas and was involved in projects in Latin America, Africa and elsewhere.  Yet to have someone who probably spent most of their life in a comfortable largely homogenous suburb presume to lecture us about diversity and how I need more diversity in my life and that's why I need a homeless shelter two or three blocks away just has me shaking my head in amazement.  [/quote]

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