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MeEvilBob t1_j07y32g wrote

Reply to comment by Allemaengel in Jim Thorpe councilmember concerned over roommate zoning ordinance which would prevent people from living with unrelated roommates by saintofhate

This ordinance is important to them because it makes it harder for immigrants to settle in the area, which is what this is all about in the first place. This is classic racist republican fuckery right here

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Libsoccer20 t1_j08bfm5 wrote

Is Jim Thorpe Republican now? It was always very blue when I lived there... (My family immigrated to Jim Thorpe in the 1800s.)

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Allemaengel t1_j08edjn wrote

Carbon County as a whole is solidly Republican but I think parts of JT borough is as Democratic as the county generally gets.

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Libsoccer20 t1_j08h7cd wrote

That's exactly what I remember is the borough was solid blue.

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ell0bo t1_j08db1j wrote

Well, things have changed in rural PA since the 1800s.

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shadowstar36 t1_j0ca8s6 wrote

Why do you have to bring politics and especially identity politics into this? . It's so tiring with the..,. " everyone is racist, sexist, bigots,.. Blah blah blah"... That world view can't be fun, it's so negative, and really wasn't a thing until 2014.

Sorry but the world doesn't work like that. It's not all black and white. There are legit reasons why they would do that before pushing out boogieman conspiracy theories of "dats racsssist"... Lol. If there was proof, then that would be different.

This was most likely due to their bad parking situation. Recently they made the whole place permit only parking. When I was there as a visitor and asked a store owner why they did that, they freaked at me. Like how dare I voice complaints about their parking. Apparently they don't want tourists to park on the streets as it's very limited. Instead of blasting some of the mountain away and creating new parking lots, they make crazy laws like this. Has nothing to do with Republicans or racism. Also not all Republicans are racist and not all democrats arent. Most people aren't racist and there can be racists people in every ethnicity.

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MeEvilBob t1_j0cxlpg wrote

Why do I have to bring up politics when talking about a purely political issue?

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