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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]  Like it or not, it's a fact that whenever you show up (choose your own historical year up to 2023), wherever you show up (pick any culture i.e. Petworth locally), non-whites suffer.

....Queue the whataboutisms[/quote]

How much of this "wherever you show up" harm has roots in money rather than in skin color?

Would this effect happen if the white people who moved in were of the same socio-economic level as the original residents, so there was no us vs. them, haves/have nots? What if said white people made an effort to live in community with the original residents instead of pricing out/exploiting/excluding them? [/quote]

My hometown (poor white city) has “gentrification.” There are $1400+/month 1BR luxury apts going up in what used to be factories. This is a city where the median HHI is about $50,000. Plenty of complaints about gentrification there.

Go on the Montana, Idaho or Utah subreddits. It’s constant whining about (white) Californians moving in and displacing poor white Utahns. [/quote]

But without the new money moving in - those places would literally die off. What the locals do not realize, understand or accept, is that prices have gone up for everyone, not just them, and the new money keeps their tax base going.  Plenty of Boomers got theirs when buying a house was still a feasible part of the American Dream - for people who lived like them.  My MIL's midwest town is literally shuttered and abandoned. If she didn't marry FIL, she would still be living in a wasteland. Change and progress is good. [/quote]

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