Re:Discrimination in the Age of Algorithms
by deogeo on Saturday March 02, 2019 @07:29PM
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You make a good point, but you overstate the effects of the wealth gap. Going by absolute numbers, there are more white people living in poverty in the US than any other ethnicity [1], so you should be able to find a majority-white slum and move there. Of course, having to do so would be (is?) ridiculous.
https://www.kff.org/other/state-indicator/poverty-rate-by-ra...
Unless you live in a city that was redlined[1], which is to say, unless you live in virtually any city. In which case, you really did not and in many cases still do not actually have much of a choice where you live. And that's without even looking at the fact that the racial wealth gap means that even if there weren't still strong barriers to integrated neighborhoods, lots of members of groups that were and are discriminated against would be unable to move into the neighborhoods that would theoretically let them escape that zip code bias.
[1]: https://www.chicagomag.com/city-life/August-2017/How-Redlini...