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(DIR) Post #AYJmPyLxTSMA0hO5Me by RickiTarr@beige.party
2023-08-01T21:34:44Z
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Tuesday Question Time!I enjoyed the conversation from my previous toot so much, let's keep it going:What do other people think about the place you live? VSWhat do you personally think about the place you live?What are the stereotypes vs how is it to actually live there?
(DIR) Post #AYJmPz5KkkeWHQcK5g by Terra@chaosfem.tw
2023-08-01T22:33:29Z
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@RickiTarr Myth: Oregon has relatively few Black people just because few Black people happen to live here.Reality: Oregon has relatively few Black people because it was a sundown state and it was illegal for Black people to move here.Mistaking accidental history for a legislated racist history.
(DIR) Post #AYJmoFsFz1R9Ih4d9c by wauz@mastodon.bayern
2023-08-02T11:00:36Z
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@TerraAs an European, I first time read the term 'sundown state'. There is a wikipedia article about it, that I want to refer to, for all European readers that don't know about this: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sundown_town@RickiTarr @StillIRise1963
(DIR) Post #AYJvX4Z9fkgstT1L9M by stevewfolds@mastodon.world
2023-08-02T12:38:20Z
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@wauz @Terra @RickiTarr @StillIRise1963 The US Interstate Highway System begun in 1956 increased racial divisions in every city. “The wrong side of the tracks” took on new meaning in reinforced concrete.
(DIR) Post #AYJwrM5SL6SAyoMfC4 by wauz@mastodon.bayern
2023-08-02T12:53:11Z
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@stevewfoldsWell, that is something we knew here before. European communities copied a lot of the ideas on traffic planning from the US. And even, when there is no racist background, any city or town is negatively affected by that brutal cuts any Autobahn within habitated areas make necessary. By percepting American criticism on that, we also learned, how those traffic systems were used to create 'racial' segregation. @Terra @RickiTarr @StillIRise1963
(DIR) Post #AYKBytixAt5sdutTJA by ellie@ellieayla.net
2023-08-02T15:42:35Z
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@wauz @Terra @RickiTarr @StillIRise1963 I only recently realized that there must have been sundown towns in Canada too. https://www.thecanadianencyclopedia.ca/en/article/racial-segregation-of-black-people-in-canadaWe pat ourselves on the back about pretending to be better than others way too much.
(DIR) Post #AYKEHUfQl8RYLCEzku by wauz@mastodon.bayern
2023-08-02T16:08:27Z
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@ellieGerman history is filled with a lot of atrocities that were kind of racist. What nobody seems to have in mind, is the genocide of Vendic and other Slavic people. The few survivors joined the Sorbic community in the Lausitz. That is a region with lot of wetlands, now threatened to be totally drained in the consequences of soft coal mining.Jews and Sinti/Roma were also restricted in means of settling. They Jews lived in Ghettos in the cities or lived, together with Sinti, in small villages with barely no agricultural ground. Jews were excluded from handcrafting trades, beside basket or brush makers. As cattle traders, they sometimes could achieve a better living. Horse trading was often a Sinti business. Both groups suffered the most malicious aggression by Nazis.Racism works in other ways than USA and Ca, but is no better at all.A lot of former GDR places have turned in sundown towns. Or, maybe more precisely, they never stopped to be after 1945.But I won't hold my hand into fire, that there a lot more places that eventally turn the same way.@Terra @RickiTarr @StillIRise1963