Posted on 07/24/2023 11:52:04 AM PDT by Incorrigible
The New York City suburb of Scarsdale, located in Westchester County, New York, is one of the country’s wealthiest communities, and its residents are reliably liberal. In 2020, three-quarters of Scarsdale voters cast ballots for Joe Biden over Donald Trump. One can safely presume that few Scarsdale residents are ardent backers of Trump’s wall on the Mexican border. But many of them support a less visible kind of wall, erected by zoning regulations that ban multifamily housing and keep non-wealthy people, many of them people of color, out of their community.
...The huge inequalities between upscale municipalities and their poorer neighbors are the product of laws that are hard to square with the inclusive In This House, We Believe signs on lawns in many highly educated, deep-blue suburbs.
...Scarsdale parents may try to reconcile the exclusion with their political liberalism by supporting greater state education spending in places like Port Chester, economic integration of schools has been found to be far more effective than a “separate but equal” compensatory-spending approach to equity.
...Studies that examine the stringency of zoning within states find that the most restrictive zoning is found in the more politically liberal communities.
...“There are people in the town of Princeton, NJ who will have a Black Lives Matter sign on their front lawn and a sign saying ‘We love our Muslim neighbors,’ That means, ‘We love our Muslim neighbors, as long as they’re millionaires.’” (Having a modest number of wealthy neighbors of color may convince privileged white homeowners that the system is just.)
...Posting welcoming slogans on a manicured lawn isn’t enough. If affluent liberal suburbanites believe that other people deserve a shot at improving their lives, the most important thing they can do is allow families of modest means into their towns.
(Excerpt) Read more at msn.com ...
MSN attacking liberals. Lol.
Rat fight!
They never do.
Indeed.
NIMBY
Illegals are useful to liberals and democrats. They assume that since Trump pushed the wall, they must be good for them (libs) politically.
Most democrats will scream til they are blue in the fact that vote fraud is a conspiracy theory, but in private they root for it.
So as long as they can keep those migrants out of their own back yard, it’s all good.
I worked with lots of liberals, not one of which ever lived in a diverse community.
I once had a big lib as a neighbor. They were the first family to leave the neighborhood when school busing was being considered (well before it was even implemented). They relocated to one of the wealthiest liberal enclaves they could find. Nothing but pure hypocrisy.
-PJ
They’re already augmenting wealthy neighborhoods with private security in LA. There will be walls someday soon. Proggies want a feudal society and they’re going to get one.
Bus ‘em in!
but whether we be liberal or conservative, we do not want garbage in our streets, bums and druggies sleeping on the sidewalks, rats outnumbering humans, etc....
so we PAY to have better communities which means most of us WORK ...
the "poor" should try working, and saving, and staying married, and running your car for 10 yrs.
My hometown in Michigan became like this. The more liberal it got the more expensive it was to live there. Now you’re lucky to find any black person or hispanic person living there...unless they’re “help”.
One of the basic attributes of Regime insiders and supporters is their ability to exempt themselves from the destructive policies they impose on others to gain power.
As CS Lewis famously said,”Of all tyrannies, a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It may be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies. The robber baron’s cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may at some point be satiated; but those who torment us for our own good will torment us without end, for they do so with the approval of their own conscience.”
Once all conservatives are defeated these totalitarian “moralists” will fall on each other to fight over who is the most “woke”. All such totalitarian movements do so. Inquisitions, Fascists, Communists... you name it. Greenpeace. BLM. Universities. All internally purge themselves until the most ruthless finally rise to the top of the heap.
“‘We love our Muslim neighbors, as long as they’re millionaires.’” (Having a modest number of wealthy neighbors of color may convince privileged white homeowners that the system is just.)”
Sounds like they could use about 20 buses of illegals.
“So as long as they can keep those migrants out of their own back yard, it’s all good.”
Except when they need some landscaping work done, then the migrants are welcome as laborers.
Just think 51 “migrants” arriving on Martha’s Vineyard.
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“I love puerto ricans and negros
As long as they don’t move next door
So love me, love me, love me, i’m a liberal
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