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PSUVB t1_j521uw5 wrote

Reply to comment by Evening_Chemist_2367 in ‘Environmental racism’ and the mysterious cars rusting in D.C. woods by Maxcactus

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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