Diversity in the East End (Washington: design, racism, rain)

[SolitaryThrush]

J- and F- visas are non-immigrant visas, so the students, researchers, visiting scholars, and contract workers here temporarily or for fixed terms are not immigrants. As someone else mentioned, the internationals who are immigrants---and who can afford it---are settling more in the suburbs.

[safak]

Originally Posted by UKyank

While I know that redneck is code for dumb racist stereotype on here, technically said stereotype would love the east end story - primarily african american area slowly gets turned into an all white paradise displacing those former residents.

cycles play out..

or is this one of those times we go just as far back as will let us make our point?

[airwave09]

Originally Posted by gg

Looks like GA's flag up until 2001. South Carolina flew the Confederate flag until very recently. It was a sign of the south and its history, but of course it is all about race now, so there is no history.

Kind of like how the swastika used to be a peace sign until the Nazi's corrupted it.

[I_Like_Spam]

Originally Posted by airwave09

Kind of like how the swastika used to be a peace sign until the Nazi's corrupted it.

Sort of.


But not quite.


The swastika wasn't that popular before the national socialists decided to use it as a trademark.


The stars and bars was popular with Skynard fans and the Dukes of Hazzard, among others, before it was attached to the idea of racism ex post facto by those opposed to racism.

[guy2073]

maybe they were just a dirt poor family from claysville who struck natural gas. their family said move away from here. they said East End is the place to be so they loaded up their truck and move to shadyside, high rents, target stores


Sorry i think this has been done before The Beverly Hillbillies - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

[ditchdigger]

Originally Posted by I_Like_Spam

Sort of.


But not quite.


The swastika wasn't that popular before the national socialists decided to use it as a trademark.


The stars and bars was popular with Skynard fans and the Dukes of Hazzard, among others, before it was attached to the idea of racism ex post facto by those opposed to racism.

I don't think it was ex post facto.

The Confederate States of America had some racist baggage attached to it, and consequently to its flag.

The difference is that in these days of political correctness, people are aware of that enough that, to fail to not display it is read as racist.

[Der Schwabe]

Originally Posted by I_Like_Spam

Sort of.


But not quite.


The swastika wasn't that popular before the national socialists decided to use it as a trademark.


The stars and bars was popular with Skynard fans and the Dukes of Hazzard, among others, before it was attached to the idea of racism ex post facto by those opposed to racism.

I'm glad you're here to take a stand for those in favor of racism. Let's decouple this flag from history asap so we can get back to enjoying the Dukes of Hazzard.

[I_Like_Spam]

Originally Posted by ditchdigger

I don't think it was ex post facto.

The Confederate States of America had some racist baggage attached to it, and consequently to its flag.

The difference is that in these days of political correctness, people are aware of that enough that, to fail to not display it is read as racist.

All of your people and groups throughout history had their points of negativity. Attaching the stars and bars just to the idea of slavery and/or racism is akin to denouncing aztec artifacts to human sacrifice or Spanish culture to the idea of celebrating auto de fe's.

[Moby Hick]

Originally Posted by I_Like_Spam

All of your people and groups throughout history had their points of negativity. Attaching the stars and bars just to the idea of slavery and/or racism is akin to denouncing aztec artifacts to human sacrifice or Spanish culture to the idea of celebrating auto de fe's.

Let's maybe wait until everybody who used organized violence to stop black people from voting has died before we expect that to be treated the same as 500 year old cases.

[ditchdigger]

Originally Posted by I_Like_Spam

All of your people and groups throughout history had their points of negativity. Attaching the stars and bars just to the idea of slavery and/or racism is akin to denouncing aztec artifacts to human sacrifice or Spanish culture to the idea of celebrating auto de fe's.

Good point. Maybe we should've painted some of the above mentioned swastikas on The Saturn V. Werner Von Braun and his guys were some damn fine rocket scientists, and that Holocaust thing was just an unpleasant footnote to the whole Nazi experience...