Sure if your goal is to spread awareness about this issue, then talking about it makes sense.
If your goal is to convince people to become YIMBY, IMO its counterproductive.
Personally while I don’t consider myself NIMBY, I’m certainly YIMBY skeptic. I would not only be not convinced to change my mind by someone discussing structural racism, I would actively be less likely to support whatever they were pitching. I’m just trying to tell you honestly about my reaction because I suspect a lot of others would react the same way.
I’m just trying to tell you honestly about my reaction because I suspect a lot of others would react the same way.
I suspect a vast majority of the general population would react the same way.
But in the specific California ultra-progressive neighborhoods ChristianKL was talking about, mentioning how Euclidean zoning was designed with the specific purpose of keeping Black residents out of white neighborhoods, because the Supreme Court had thrown out previous and more explicitly racist proposals to keep out “negroes and Orientals” in Buchanan v Warley five years prior, could be more persuasive.
Sure if your goal is to spread awareness about this issue, then talking about it makes sense.
If your goal is to convince people to become YIMBY, IMO its counterproductive.
Personally while I don’t consider myself NIMBY, I’m certainly YIMBY skeptic. I would not only be not convinced to change my mind by someone discussing structural racism, I would actively be less likely to support whatever they were pitching. I’m just trying to tell you honestly about my reaction because I suspect a lot of others would react the same way.
I suspect a vast majority of the general population would react the same way.
But in the specific California ultra-progressive neighborhoods ChristianKL was talking about, mentioning how Euclidean zoning was designed with the specific purpose of keeping Black residents out of white neighborhoods, because the Supreme Court had thrown out previous and more explicitly racist proposals to keep out “negroes and Orientals” in Buchanan v Warley five years prior, could be more persuasive.