>> If you want to complain about rising housing prices, complain about that. But don't perpetuate the myth that the 1970s and earlier would have been heaven when a large portion of Americans today would have been segregated back then.

>> It's insensitive.

Stop problematising everything, complete with Twitter style mic drops. OP didn't say the 70s were heaven, they're saying that home-ownership is slipping ever more out of reach. This is a true point for people of all races, religions, sexual orientations, etc.

There's nothing constructive about trying to slyly imply white people are more problematic for wanting homes to live in than people of other races. It's pointlessly divisive, and undercuts the sorely needed pro-housing coalition.

You're playing into what the elites want: an opposition that is fractious, navel-gazing, and delightfully (to the elites) impotent.

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alephnerd 2 hours ago | parent [-]

> they're saying that home-ownership is slipping ever more out of reach

The why don't you guys say that instead of reflexively fawning over a period that is objectively worse for us.

> slyly imply white people are more problematic for wanting homes to live in than people of other races

I never implied that, and that is why is said the following: "If you want to complain about rising housing prices, complain about that. But don't perpetuate the myth that the 1970s and earlier would have been heaven when a large portion of Americans today would have been segregated back then".

To be brutally honest, whenever I and others point out that the historical nostalgia is not really positive for a large portions Americans, commenters like you reflexively try to shut us down.

Why should we accommodate your pearl clutching?

	▲	troad an hour ago \| parent [-]
		Because you get to have housing, or you get to be right, but you don't get both. You'll never build the necessary coalition if you spend half the time weaving in truth telling about slavery and indigenous genocide. The left has forgotten what power and politics is. It's not cathartic posting. That's why we keep losing. Was it right that the gay marriage fight required us to seek the approval and acquiescence of straights for same-sex love? God no, it was grotesque. Did we win? You bet your ass we did. If the trans fight wasn't fought in the idiotic way it was, Trump wouldn't have had his best attack ad, and this might be a much better world for trans people. I don't give a flying fig about who was in the wrong in the 50s about race (as if there's any doubt about that). Outcomes are much more important than never-ending reconciliation and truth telling, especially for marginalised people. Endless talking is a privilege. Do you want houses or not?