General Urban Cambridge Updates and Rumours

[jamincan]

- that opposition to these towers has a racial component to it (ie. the NIMBYs want to preserve the whiteness of their community). This seems absurd on the face of it, but it seems a sufficiently inflammatory allegation to require pretty strong evidence.

Do you genuinely think that assuming that a community of exclusively or nearly exclusively white landowners might be racist is absurd? In a country still controlled by the people who colonized it and not the traditional land guardians?

I think they might well be racist, it just seems absurd to me to believe that a project like this would somehow lead to the community becoming more racially diverse rather than less. On reflection, I'm not really sure how it might change (which might be reason enough to oppose it for some people).