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[Arturo Davila Andino]

I think you are taking a reductionist interpretation of what I wrote.

Since I don't know wether your stance in willfully in mistaking my
argument, I am writing  short response.

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 (
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
)

The Executive Order 9066 was very clear as well for taking the rights of
american citizens when they needed those rights the most.

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.


On Mon, Apr 17, 2023 at 5:20 PM Stuart D Gathman <stuart at gathman.org> wrote:

> On Thu, 23 Feb 2023, Arturo Davila Andino wrote:
>
> > I think we all agree that rules within a society are entirely fabricated
> and
>
> Strongly disagree.  Rules within a society approximate reality - the
> less accurate, the sicker the society.
>
> > One example of this is the practice of redlining, which was used by the
> > Federal Housing Administration in the mid-20th century to deny loans to
> > people in certain areas, primarily Black neighborhoods. This practice
> helped
>
> On the other hand, making loans to people who couldn't afford them
> led to the crash of the mortgage system.
>
> > discrimination and marginalization. (I am not even getting started
> > on Internment of Japanese Americans in 1942)
>
> You should, as that was blatantly unconstitutional.
>
> > A controlling tactic we humans use to subjugate people is using facts and
> > ignoring their feelings. By focusing on objective facts and ignoring the
>
> Reality has a way of smacking people who ignore facts in the face -
> without any help from unfeeling people.  If someone is truly unaware
> of facts (as opposed to willfully ignorant as in Hosea 4:6), it is
> kindness to try to inform them, especially if they are in danger.
>
> > I am not advocating for the elimination of hierarchies or social rules,
> but
> > I will always be a passionate supporter of the disenfranchised. The
> reason
>
> Favoritism to the poor is just as wicked as favoritism to the rich
> or to the crowd. Exodus 23:3, Leviticus 19:15
>
> Supporting the disenfranchised with your own time and resources
> is a virtue.  Stealing other people's time and resources
> to do so is wicked.  (Note Robin Hood did not steal from the rich,
> but was simply returning money literally stolen from the poor at
> swordpoint - it wasn't even legally
> taxed.)_______________________________________________
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