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Re:Marc Andreessen says he’s for new housing, but records te... by rootusrootus on Friday August 05, 2022 @12:44AM (#32351781)
That's disingenuous, race is a protected class. High density housing isn't.

Sometimes we seem to like the idea of democracy, sometimes we don't. That's the tension here.

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Re:Marc Andreessen says he’s for new housing, but records te... by jdminhbg on Friday August 05, 2022 @01:04AM (#32351939)
How is it disingenuous? OP asserted that communities are "allowed to decide how they are composed," and they obviously are not. Which decisions we allow communities to make is the entire question.
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Re:Marc Andreessen says he’s for new housing, but records te... by rootusrootus on Friday August 05, 2022 @10:18AM (#32356435)
Protected classes are already protected, so it is absolutely disingenuous to try and suggest that if we allow communities to have a say in their own composition we would have to allow them to discriminate based on race.
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Re:Marc Andreessen says he’s for new housing, but records te... by tptacek on Friday August 05, 2022 @12:48AM (#32351811)
High density housing isn't protected because we choose not to protect it. But that's changing, thankfully.
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