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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Idk about anything else but whoever keeps posting about how people live grouped solely into ethnic/racial groups in LA hasn't been to LA since 1980 or something like that. It's some sort of weird segregationist fantasy that's actually really disturbing because that PP seems to be fetishizing it. I don't even like LA much, but that PP is so crazily wrong that it makes me think the PP wishes what he keeps posting were true. It's really weird and disturbing.[/quote]

Well actually I lived in LA up until a couple months ago, lol.  So you're wrong again.  The racial issues are still alive and well, and no one is praising it.  I think you're confusing yourself because you're mad that people are calling out the racial issues in LA, which are ongoing and well documented, like in the article a PP posted about segregation in LA schools.  Pay a visit, you'll see. [/quote]

What? You are putting words in my mouth. I never said there weren't significant racial issues in LA. There are and they are serious. But you are lying about living there, or you are wishing for some weird segregationist fantasy in your head. The totally isolated world you paint just isn't true, and you are weakening your point substantially by painting a wildly inaccurate picture of modern LA.  There is no need to make up a segregationist fantasy when talking about race issues in LA. I honestly find it really disturbing how you are doing that. This claim that racial groups in LA only live in one neighborhood in LA is not remotely supported by actual population data.

Stop the segregationist fantasies. It's awful. [/quote]

I'm absolutely not lying about living there, what an absurd statement.  And the data backs up my experience, not yours.  I experienced a ton of racial segregation in Los Angeles, and trying to pain it as some weird fantasy that has me salivating, when in fact I've actively condemned it, and gave it as one of my main reasons for disliking Los Angeles since the first time I posted, is a really bold, and dare I say stupid, argumentation strategy.

Did the person who compiled the data about racial segregation in Los Angeles schools have a "fantasy" about it too?

You truly sound crazy and like you need to be medicated. [/quote]

I don't argue with crazy people with disturbing segregationist fantasies. I will just show the data. Here are some links for you to peruse:

This website visualizes DC racial breakdown by neighborhood and starts from 1970:

https://dcist.com/story/20/01/14/this-gif-shows-how-the-d-c-areas-demographics-have-changed-since-1970/

While more integrated than it was, DC still remains quite separated. Meanwhile, the LA Times provides a neighborhood breakdown that, if you walk through, shows much greater average neighborhood diversity than DC:

http://maps.latimes.com/neighborhoods/

None of this is to take away from the very serious racial issues that LA has. Those are undeniable. I agree with the school issues, I don't deny them. But you need to stop with your false characterizations of neighborhood demographics of LA. They aren't supported by data, and you sound like you are making up very disturbing fantasies.[/quote]

There is no way that DC is less integrated than Los Angeles.  It's also interesting to note that Los Angeles is dominant racial minority- white people are the minority.  So the fact that the west side and prosperous areas are almost all white, and black people get routinely stopped and questioned when they enter into Beverly Hills, is extremely shocking in 2020.  The fact that you can drive through the barrio and not see one black or white face, and drive to south central and it's all black people, and drive to the westside and see all white people in a town where the population is so diverse- that's segregation.  And it's very heightened in LA, as is racial tension in general [/quote]

Well, you foundationally don't understand population data or statistics, that much is clear.[/quote]

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