This is nifty
Sep. 22nd, 2010 12:26 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
conulyHere's a set of pictures of cities in the US, carefully color coded to indicate who lives where by ethnicity.
Naturally, I looked at NYC first. That big gray spot in Manhattan is Central Park, right below it is Midtown - not a lot of people live there, it's mostly where people work. All that stuff on the left of the screen is Jersey.
Of course, down the page a bit is this lovely comment:
Further proof that mixing races only leads to segregation, which leads to voilence. Multiethnic or multicultural societies are doomed to fail.
WTF? Mixing races leads to segregation? And this leads inexorably to violence how, exactly? I'm sure it's because this map proves his point or something, except it doesn't - NYC is actually one of the safest cities in America. (Maybe he's trying to prove a negative and say that NYC isn't actually all that integrated (or maybe that it is...?) and this is non-violent? Who knows?)
So, yeah, that one doesn't even make sense. If you're going to be randomly racist, since you can't have facts on your side, at least try to have logic there!
Naturally, I looked at NYC first. That big gray spot in Manhattan is Central Park, right below it is Midtown - not a lot of people live there, it's mostly where people work. All that stuff on the left of the screen is Jersey.
Of course, down the page a bit is this lovely comment:
Further proof that mixing races only leads to segregation, which leads to voilence. Multiethnic or multicultural societies are doomed to fail.
WTF? Mixing races leads to segregation? And this leads inexorably to violence how, exactly? I'm sure it's because this map proves his point or something, except it doesn't - NYC is actually one of the safest cities in America. (Maybe he's trying to prove a negative and say that NYC isn't actually all that integrated (or maybe that it is...?) and this is non-violent? Who knows?)
So, yeah, that one doesn't even make sense. If you're going to be randomly racist, since you can't have facts on your side, at least try to have logic there!
