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He is very incorrect
This to me encapsulates the American "progressive" liberals illiteracy regarding politics and they're inability to recognise that other countries however adjacent in the imperial core just do not operate in the same wacky way US politics does.
Hearing someone so embarrassingly mischaracterise several UK cities with a rich political history down to "nooaaww the inner cities aaaarrrr liberull but the suburbs are conservative" and then just misrepresent or flatly get wrong the political landscape currently is just wild given his confidence.
My dude the incredibly down trodden satellite housing to a large city you keep circling back to is not rich and conservative you fucking dolt.
Progressivism = china town and liberalism
That's it, that was his whole spiel was
"this city is progressive, i mean they have china town.... liberalism"
THATS IT!!
This is someone thinks they are a socialist and knows what privatisation is but their understanding of even liberalism is "liberalism = progressive social justice" so like lmao.
And before anyone shakes their torches at me, this dudes is literally mansplaining this to this disinterested women about a country he isn't from, about policies he doesn't understand.
Wine cellar liberal thinking he can problem shoot a system he's not involved in or aware of.
Wild. My family should have never left Cork.
Did you know Portland, OR has a Chinatown? Except Portland's Asian-American population (nevermind their Chinese-American population) is one of the city's smallest demographics. How did this discrepancy occur? The Portland PD and local chapter of the KKK burned down most of the original Oldtown and chased out/lynched any Asians they could get their hands on. Wasn't as bad as the Tulsa Massacre, but a non-zero number of people died and there's very little left.
I learned about this on a visit there years ago to the Shanghai Tunnels. Neat stuff! Almost as if having minority neighborhoods segregated off isn't indicative of a place not being racist.....
Even wilder - all those Chinese decorations, gates, street signs? Those were put up in the 1980s, long after most of the Chinese-American families were pushed out east. Now it's where the homeless services are and is probably the roughest part of town.
Now there's sort of a new chinatown out east in the Jade District, but it's constantly at risk of gentrification too~
Denver specifically doesn't have a Chinatown because a racist mob burned it down in 1880.
Omfg. So I only know the story of one China town in Liverpool that's super big because Liverpool being a port city and having a much more collectivist identity openly welcomed Chinese immigrants back in the day.
This story was told to me by a scouser.
Liverpool is hella based so I took him at his word but I'm not historian.