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How come white folks go into a white hot rage and fight tooth and nail against any efforts to build affordable housing within 5 miles of their house? (hexbear.net)

submitted 3 years ago* (last edited 3 years ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Is it just pure racism? Is it just overall hatred of poor people? Some combo of the two? Something else entirely?

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 years ago

Housing becomes more than a commodity under capitalism. It's your retreat from the workplace, from exploitation, from capitalism. It's a coping mechanism based on intentional ignorance. Having poor people, living embodyment's of Capitalism's failures, shatters that reality.