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Re:How Tech Can Build by moultano on Tuesday April 21, 2020 @01:32PM (#22937142)
> It's going to happen by carefully understanding the context and motivations and knowledge that led to the current laws, and only then setting out change them, hopefully for the better.

If you go case by case through all the nonsensical things in the american legal system, you'll find most of the time that the reason they were put in place originally was racism. Zoning is a prime example.

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Re:How Tech Can Build by PaulDavisThe1st on Tuesday April 21, 2020 @04:20PM (#22938932)
Zoning for single family housing is definitely (at least in substantial part) rooted in racism (although I think you can make a case for it to be more expansively classism ... but sure, whatever).

However, racism doesn't require 2+ parking spaces, just single family dwellings that cost more than poor people can afford.

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