To understand the Asian effect, you have to understand why society became less racist towards Asians. From studying this issue, the 2 main reasons I've learned are pretty simple.

1. Asian's were glad to be out of their shithole countries and could make a better wage here.
2. Asian's who were mad at whites decided to give them a fuck you by outcompeting them

This post was edited by AspenSniper on Apr 21 2017 08:56am

You go to Thailand with 5k . you're rich . There is reason they do better trade deals than America .

This post was edited by CitroenC7 on Apr 21 2017 09:08am

Because the cost of a U-Haul is the only cost associated with moving.

You're more than welcome to give a breakdown of cost and why it's so difficult to move.

A lot of it is time-related, but there are other monetary costs, as well.

Down payments or rent deposits, lost wages due to time to actually move, time spent searching for a new place, labor for the process, any fees related to utility hookups, and so on.

Plus, for many low-income people, new locations may be severely limited if their transportation options are limited (like distance to jobs, whether a new location accepts Section 8, etc).

Feel the privilege flow through you.

I know $100 is probably an inconvenience fee for you and me. There are people out there for whom a few hundred makes the difference between being able to put food on the table for the month. Who rely on their community (church and relatives for example) to help make ends meet every month.

It's really not as easy as you say man.

This post was edited by obisent on Apr 21 2017 09:53am

He does this about once a month...posts some silly thread about race and poverty, gets shown the light (so to speak), acknowledges as much, then comes back a month later with a similar thread, making the same tired points.

Poverty is the #1 reason.

I literally just moved and aside from the $110 uhaul bill (for their largest truck available) it was $23.87 for the initiation fee of the electric bill, and no charge for the gas or water. Time/wages is totally unfair. Stay up til midnight a couple nights and pack. I didn't take a day off work to move and it sucked, but oh well I didn't want to lose the money.

Round up and call it $150. Give a legitimate reason someone couldn't save $150 over the course of say, 2 years, to eventually get out of the crappy inner city they're in. I live in Maryland and I know how far out the buses go in Baltimore and the metro in DC. You can get out of Southeast DC or West Baltimore and to a more rural area for the same cost and if you can/want, use section 8 to assist. It's not even privilege, that's just facts. Add up the dollars and tell me why it isn't possible from a quantitative sense.



I'm aware of the value of money and how it differs in different communities. $100 to me holds much less value than to someone jobless in an inner city. My argument is that if you know the inner city is extremely dangerous for you and your children, could you save $5-10/month for 2 years and have the money to move? There are many municipalities that offer moving/relocation assistance at the expense of the state/municipality as well. Governments don't want people to take entitlements forever, so they offer programs and assistance to get people back on their feet.

Just as Surfpunk says, I get into these debates a lot with the "same tired points" but the only comebacks I ever see are like "you're just privileged, you don't know" or "institutionalized racism" or some crap. No one ever has facts to back it up that speak to the dollars required to improve your situation.

please tell me this is some kind of satire