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PSUVB t1_j51p1ob wrote

Has anyone every heard of Environmental Racism before? Is this just made up?

The people that dumped the cars in their own park are racist against themselves?

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Evening_Chemist_2367 t1_j520b73 wrote

I think it ties into the broader topic of environmental justice, and it's not necessarily the locals doing the dumping. Often zoning laws are such that heavy industry and polluting businesses are zoned to be where low income people and minorities live, and it's often intentional, knowing they are not as empowered or have the legal means or political connections to be able to fight it. That's at one end of the spectrum. At the other is stuff like illegal dumping - likewise, people are likely to dump their waste in marginalized neighborhoods where they think they are more able to get away with it.

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PSUVB t1_j521uw5 wrote

I get the first part. That seems separate from that article. The article itself says "environmental racism" and talks about abandoned cars.

I highly doubt racist people or people from NW are driving to SE to dump their cars in the woods. More likely people their dump their own cars in the woods and it has nothing to do with racism.

There is broken down cars littered through the woods in low income rural areas. The answer there is simple.

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Evening_Chemist_2367 t1_j52iy10 wrote

Yes, partly - in an overwhelmingly white part of the country, the dumping would be happening in low-income white areas. But where the racism component starts to come in is that many of the low-income minority communities are the way they are because of a legacy of racism like redlining that kept minorities zoned into certain areas. But no, it's not as though racist rednecks are towing their cars a hundred miles just to dump them in a black neighborhood.

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PSUVB t1_j530k6t wrote

Yeah but I still don’t see the connection between redlining and dumping a car in your own neighborhood park?

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Evening_Chemist_2367 t1_j53300m wrote

Do you know for a fact that it was someone dumping the car in their own neighborhood park? Could have been a car used in a crime, they dumped it there with another car waiting.

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Evening_Chemist_2367 t1_j55xhg1 wrote

Given the downvotes, it's amazing that some of you don't actually know what's going on but insist on being hardline opinionated on it anyhow.

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