drpvn t1_iydtffu wrote
Reply to comment by bsanchey in Long COVID Symptoms Most Common Among Latinos and Residents of The Bronx by Lilyo
You also said the city intends to make vulnerable communities suffer bad things. How so?
bsanchey t1_iye03zc wrote
Look at how the city shares resources. Take as old as time. Just look at schools. The richest neighborhoods in Manhattan have the best stuff for their students. Schools in the Bronx have to layoff teachers.
Lower east side gets a new park. Lots of parks in poorer areas can’t get new paint.
City needs to cut services the poorest areas get the first cuts.
New housing get to be built in better areas and more homeless shelters for the poorest areas.
Bike lanes for good areas. Highest asthma rates for the Bronx
If you live in NYCHA they can’t even be bothered to fix your heat or elevator.
How resources are spent show who gets taken care off and who gets forgotten.
drpvn t1_iye1whf wrote
The schools with the neediest students get the most resources, I know that much. I don’t know much about the others.
bsanchey t1_iye8zns wrote
A recent report came out the NYCHA replaced only 2 elevators out of all their properties. The elevators have been issues since Bloomberg. And since a federal monitor and all that they have only replaced 2.
People just accept that governments cant fix anything when the truth is they can move heaven and earth to address whatever they want.
princessnegrita t1_iye107m wrote
I refuse to believe that you have no idea what environmental racism is.
occasional_cynic t1_iye51fl wrote
> environmental racism
LOL this website is a caricature of itself.
drpvn t1_iye8b5o wrote
Mods are searching your comment history.
occasional_cynic t1_iyeasou wrote
Yeah, already had my comment deleted for "Covid denial." If some blue/pink hair wants to ban me so be it.
princessnegrita t1_iye5m1c wrote
Is this website a caricature of itself or are you just ignorant and triggered by the word racism?
Edit: what you doing here New Hampshire?
drpvn t1_iye1k9s wrote
Is that what OP was talking about?
princessnegrita t1_iye6mo2 wrote
Look up what environmental racism is if you aren’t familiar and come back and tell me if you think that’s what they’re talking about.
drpvn t1_iye71n1 wrote
Wasn’t clear from his initial comment. His follow up comment seems to be talking about that. But then again I didn’t think “environmental racism” involved intentionality—his comment was that the city has intentionally tried to make poor people suffer these harms.
princessnegrita t1_iyeb0e3 wrote
The intentional part is the literal decades of de facto and de jure racism. The environmental repercussions are a side effect.
drpvn t1_iyebj0w wrote
Yeah that’s not how I read his initial comment, which was saying that the city intends to harm these communities.
princessnegrita t1_iyedxqc wrote
The OP said that having vulnerable groups suffer the most in events like this is the intention of the city.
Another way to say it would be: the fact that the most vulnerable groups have worse cases of COVID isn’t a bug, it’s a feature of a system built on inequality.
drpvn t1_iyeft3r wrote
Right. He said that the city intends to have vulnerable groups suffer the most. That’s what I said.
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