<div dir="ltr"><div>I think you are taking a reductionist interpretation of what I wrote.</div><div><br></div><div>Since I don't know wether your stance in willfully in mistaking my argument, I am writing short response.</div><div><br></div><div>Redlining was explicitly racist. No amount of correlation between race and income should be a basis to justify discrimination. My brother, we are even talking about loans at the time of the depression; everyone was poor. The "law" was very clear and the society was sick (<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Levitt_%26_Sons#:~:text=This%20%22restrictive%20covenant%22%20stated%20in%20capital%20letters%20and%20bold%20type%20that%20the%20house%20could%20not%20%22be%20used%20or%20occupied%20by%20any%20person%20other%20than%20members%20of%20the%20Caucasian%20race.%22%5B12%5D">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Levitt_%26_Sons#:~:text=This%20%22restrictive%20covenant%22%20stated%20in%20capital%20letters%20and%20bold%20type%20that%20the%20house%20could%20not%20%22be%20used%20or%20occupied%20by%20any%20person%20other%20than%20members%20of%20the%20Caucasian%20race.%22%5B12%5D</a>)<br><br>The Executive Order 9066 was very clear as well for taking the rights of american citizens when they needed those rights the most.</div><div><br></div><div>Now I see it is hard for you, as a group, to acknowledge facts for events in hindsight. Tilting the scales back to balance in favor of the disenfranchised is not favoritism, but justice.</div><div><br></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Mon, Apr 17, 2023 at 5:20 PM Stuart D Gathman <<a href="mailto:stuart@gathman.org">stuart@gathman.org</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">On Thu, 23 Feb 2023, Arturo Davila Andino wrote:<br>
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> I think we all agree that rules within a society are entirely fabricated and<br>
<br>
Strongly disagree. Rules within a society approximate reality - the<br>
less accurate, the sicker the society.<br>
<br>
> One example of this is the practice of redlining, which was used by the<br>
> Federal Housing Administration in the mid-20th century to deny loans to<br>
> people in certain areas, primarily Black neighborhoods. This practice helped<br>
<br>
On the other hand, making loans to people who couldn't afford them <br>
led to the crash of the mortgage system.<br>
<br>
> discrimination and marginalization. (I am not even getting started<br>
> on Internment of Japanese Americans in 1942)<br>
<br>
You should, as that was blatantly unconstitutional.<br>
<br>
> A controlling tactic we humans use to subjugate people is using facts and<br>
> ignoring their feelings. By focusing on objective facts and ignoring the<br>
<br>
Reality has a way of smacking people who ignore facts in the face -<br>
without any help from unfeeling people. If someone is truly unaware<br>
of facts (as opposed to willfully ignorant as in Hosea 4:6), it is<br>
kindness to try to inform them, especially if they are in danger.<br>
<br>
> I am not advocating for the elimination of hierarchies or social rules, but<br>
> I will always be a passionate supporter of the disenfranchised. The reason<br>
<br>
Favoritism to the poor is just as wicked as favoritism to the rich<br>
or to the crowd. Exodus 23:3, Leviticus 19:15<br>
<br>
Supporting the disenfranchised with your own time and resources <br>
is a virtue. Stealing other people's time and resources<br>
to do so is wicked. (Note Robin Hood did not steal from the rich,<br>
but was simply returning money literally stolen from the poor at<br>
swordpoint - it wasn't even legally taxed.)_______________________________________________<br>
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