What Being against ‘CRT’ and ‘Wokeness’ Should Not Mean
…of simple social snobbery, not race, yet they still affect less affluent racial groups more. The belief that the less affluent are undesirable neighbors has been a motive for local…
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More on Christian Faith and Land Use: The Issue of Profiling
…more or less likely to do certain things? Or be desirable or undesirable neighbors, to be welcomed or excluded by local public policy? I have written recently about how my…
What My Christian Faith Brings to My Views on Land Use
…is that a lot of land use law in our country is based on a not very Christian concept of who are ‘undesirable neighbors’. The event that first triggered my…
The Sin of Entitlement
…perceived as less ‘deserving’ than recipients of social insurance. Those who make less money than we do are seen as undesirable people and undesirable neighbors and should be excluded by…
If We’re ‘Better Behaved’ Just Because We’re Affluent, God is Not Impressed
It is often believed that poorer people are worse behaved and therefore undesirable neighbors; and certainly enough, certain pathological behaviors are more common in the poor communities. This is used…
Now, Even Apartment Dwellers are Getting Choosy about their Neighbors
…than myself are inferior and undesirable people or at the least undesirable neighbors, is perhaps a bigger factor than racism today in influencing local land use politics. But a new…
Why I am not a Communitarian
…so now.] What I call ‘incomism’, the belief that the less affluent are inferior people or at the very least undesirable neighbors, still drives a lot of local political behavior….
RIP Thomas Fuentes, 1948-2012
…and that the non-rich were ‘losers’ who were trashy people and, most especially, undesirable neighbors that should be zoned out or redeveloped out by government. It was not a party…
Why Non-Suburbanites Distrust Suburbanites
…and at the very least, undesirable neighbors. [Sometimes people who make a lot more money than we do are considered undesirable neighbors, too! They drive up prices.] I think that…
Envy Isn’t Just a Left Wing Vice
…morally inferior, or at least undesirable neighbors, I call Incomism. I use this term instead of Classism because I believe that social classes are more a cultural phenomenon than an…