alt Hacker NewsYou’re conflating race with poverty.
It feels racist to expect people to assume a neighborhood is 'resource poor' just because it is 'historically black'.
Also, the OP explicitly states that lawsuits are pending. Clearly, the community was able to mount a legal defense
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hirsin • yesterday at 11:26 PM
You've got an extra actor in the mix that makes for a different argument and actually supports the idea that it's racist, I think.
Namely - I think most agree that it's racist to mindlessly assume race and poverty are correlated. The argument here is that the AI companies made that assumption - in other words, they're being called racists.
I don't think it's racist to speculate that a corporation, that made choices that specifically impact black neighborhoods, is racist.
> It feels racist to expect people to assume a neighborhood is 'resource poor' just because it is 'historically black'.
Statistically poverty is correlated with race. For reasons to do with (quite recent) history.