Common ground

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1. stonogoAug 2022
   Scott Cummings uses terms like "black invasion" to describe demographic changes in the neighborhood. It's difficult to separate his obvious biases from his work, leaving a slanted product unfit as an accurate record. Lukas is a much more reliable narrator, however, and Common Ground is an excellent work.

   Your statistics are uninteresting; the largest demographic is indeed the primary recipient of inter-demographic action from the second-largest demographic. This is to be expected in any interaction across any demographic boundary. Trying to use to it to advance some agenda is disingenuous, especially since 80% of all white people murdered are murdered by white people -- in other words, you're dealing with marginalia here.

   The claim about the "lack of media attention" for black-on-asian violence is similarly absurd, since there is plentiful media coverage of the problem as a whole and your provided example in specific, as demonstrated in the sources cited by your Wikipedia link.

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2. moldbugMay 2012
   You're claiming that integration ruined Brooklyn? Can you explain the mechanism?

   http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/White_flight http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ethnic_cleansing

   If you ever actually talk to anyone who was personally involved in the former, and they're being frank, they'll tell you that a primary concern was a rational fear for their physical safety and/or that of their families. Which adds up to the latter. Why do you think there are no Serbs left in Kosovo, or no Albanians in Mitrovica?

   E. Michael Jones's Slaughter of Cities (http://www.amazon.com/The-Slaughter-Cities-Renewal-Cleansing...) is a good overview from a j'accuse perspective. For a mainstream author, read J. Anthony Lukas' Common Ground. Better yet, read them both.

   Of course we've digressed into the question of harmful effects (of the civil-rights movement) on white people. My original post was mainly concerned with the effect on black people.

   Perhaps you've noticed some cultural changes? Are they for the better? If we could sit down together and watch WSHH for an hour, how exactly would we disagree?

   http://www.worldstarhiphop.com/videos/

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