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  • richietozier4 [he/him]
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    3 years ago

    Sent from the country where unemployed and handicapped people are not allowed to move into certain neighbourhoods

    Wait, what?

    • SoyViking [he/him]
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      3 years ago

      In certain neighbourhoods, often those with the lowest rents, you get placed at the bottom of the waiting list for housing if you're unemployed, on disability, doesn't have formal education, have a criminal record or is a stay at home spouse. Politicians here are very concerned with not having too many undesirables, i.e. poors and Muslims, living in the same place.

      Muslims are the most heated minority though and all those "objective" criteria for housing discrimination are really meant to be understood as dog whistles for Muslims as unemployment, crime etc. are being perceived in an increasingly racialised way here. White people here gets caught up in this as well, but they're still poor people so nobody who matters cares.

      Allegedly crime and unemployment will ensue if such second-class citizens live too close together and are bad influences on each other and our dear leaders are insistent they are actually doing it for the undesirables' own sake, something about children had to see their neighbours go to work in the morning.