> It's happened many a time before.
And who can blame them? If you started putting a bunch of high-risk no-income people in section 8 housing in a formerly nice neighborhood, any rational person who could afford it would move away.
And who can blame them? If you started putting a bunch of high-risk no-income people in section 8 housing in a formerly nice neighborhood, any rational person who could afford it would move away.
This is a classist dogwhistle labeling the poor as lazy, violent people.
"The poor" is not the same as "people who live in public housing". There are a lot of dirt-poor rural areas that are very safe (and generally more employable).
The poor are lazy: http://www.census.gov/content/dam/Census/library/publication... Table 3 on page 21.
They are also disproportionately violent: http://www.bjs.gov/content/pub/pdf/hpnvv0812.pdf
I have no data on section 8 recipients in particular; do you?
The rich would be violent, too, if they were threatened by losing their wealth. Being able to reject violence wholesale is privileged.
Let's just agree never to interact; I think we'll both be happier.
Ah, so not beating your wife, as discussed in the paper, is privileged? It's OK for poor people to do it?
Avoiding conviction certainly is.