Its also pretty rich using Boston as an example while ignoring the very recent investigative journalism that exposed the structural racism of the area that has led to white citizens acruing 31,000 times more wealth,, on average than their minority counterparts in that area. Its as if there are other elements at play…

I’m a caucasion home owner who chose not to engage in gentrification nor ignore its negative impacts.

Ha! Another assumption. You assumed I was African American.

Thats not moving the goalpost, you insufferable little racist. I asked a question, you attempted to answer it and I called it out as a failure. Ironically you are trying to now move the goalpost. Your response wasn’t to your own rhetorical statement, it was to my question and you accepted the terms when you engaged…

Attacking the source is only a fallacy if their history and trends aren’t part of the equation. He is using his assumed authority on the subject to write opinion pieces intended to be persuasive. He wrote an extremist opinion piece that he failed to support so highlighting his history of writing ethno-nationalist…

You lack basic media and scientific literacy. He used demographic statistic to try, he failed, to support a unsubstantiated claim about the role of morality. Clearly you didn’t read your own source.

There is nothing that backs up your claims. You have demographic statistics and a radical opinion piece that is unsubstantiated by Pregar.

Didn’t cherrypick. I read the entire article. Demographic statistics don’t support his subjective interpretation of their meaning. Nothing in his opinion piece supports the claims about the role of his narrow construct of morality.

FAIL! and an outright lie. You never answered my rhetorical question:

Jumping from personal anecdotes to claims about an entire group of people is a gross generalization.

You really just used Dennis Prager as a source, and one it which it jumps to the radical assumption that “that Judeo-Christian values, not economics, determine moral behavior.” Seriously? He fits right in with modern ethno-nationalism.

Nice try, but a swing and a miss again.

There we go, let the true colors wave.

Can you support your claim that these residents “have no concern for upkeep, just like they didn’t previously” with more than prejudiced assumptions? From what I can tell you are making gross generalizations about minority homeowners and assuming intent or values based upon those generalizations. To do so ignores all…

PS....your ignoring the broader issue of gentrification in the Bay Area in places like Oakland. It best considered a Bay Area suburb and the gentrification their is largely affecting people of color.

Nice try. You represent what many of us would call a naive conception of gentrification, ie the notion that the only aspect that matters is that of the white middle class homeowner who moved into the area. But you added a layer in your first post that matters:

Nope, burden of proof is on you given your statements. Given how philanthropic and altruistic you are I can only imagine the vast knowledge you have to justify your claims, ie more than gross generalizations.

I can’t believe I missed the “blacks” redflag.

Sorry, but gentrification isn’t a term used to criticize those who “move back in and inject our own personal income to improve the very same area”. That sort of rationalization is inscrutable at best and self aggrandizing at a minimum.

Never said it did. But having a presidential campaign and then administration that gives open legitimacy to white supremacy energizes racists in a way we have seen in decades. We were never post-racism, I am fully aware of that.