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How come white folks go into a white hot rage and fight tooth and nail against any efforts to build affordable housing within 5 miles of their house? (hexbear.net)

submitted 3 years ago* (last edited 3 years ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Is it just pure racism? Is it just overall hatred of poor people? Some combo of the two? Something else entirely?

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[–] [email protected] 0 points 3 years ago (1 children)

When social life is organised for the production of commodities people will start identifying with their their commodities. Once they tie their personal value to that of their commodity, such as a house, an assault on the value of their property is seen as equal to an assault on their person.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 years ago

Housing becomes more than a commodity under capitalism. It's your retreat from the workplace, from exploitation, from capitalism. It's a coping mechanism based on intentional ignorance. Having poor people, living embodyment's of Capitalism's failures, shatters that reality.