[JumpCrisscross]

> In ordinary usage, “racism” means prejudice based on race. There are efforts by some to muddy its meaning, to encompass both racial prejudice and “disproportionate effect,” but that’s not the common usage.

Thank you. For some reason I've never been able to explain it so succinctly when two people I respect get into an obviously semantic argument around something being or not being racist and then getting lost in the weeds of the intentions of the long dead.

[tptacek]

Just so we're all clear, the racism of prohibitions on intergenerational housing --- which is what BLM is talking about when they talk about the "nuclear family" or whatever it is they said to spook the normies --- is racism, not disproportionate impact. Single family zoning was designed to keep specific ethnicities out of "white" neighborhoods. It's not an accident.

[spacemanmatt]

Do you think that there is a large gap between prejudice and disproportionate effect? I'm just curious how this break down for you.

[tptacek]

I don't know, I'm just saying these policies were motivated directly, maybe exclusively by racial animus.

[JumpCrisscross]

> I'm just saying these policies were motivated directly, maybe exclusively by racial animus

We have similar motivations to thank for our cabaret laws in New York, which literally fined restaurants without the proper licences if their patrons danced.