General Urban Cambridge Updates and Rumours

[danbrotherston]

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).

Racist, classist, even just single people vs. families etc. the problem is that people are very good at deluding themselves into believing they are good. This is why it's always "I support affordable housing BUT"....

Most NIMBYs would never even admit to themselves that they oppose people different from them, they have fully convinced themselves that it's about building form.

But not only is the effect racist, but for many, maybe not all, the underlying unconscious motivation is also actually racist...that is WHY they want this.