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Post by Milowent on Feb 3, 2014 10:29:50 GMT -5
www.snopes.com/politics/conspiracy/fakesnow.aspI really can't believe anyone took this seriously? Did someone create this hoax? Cause now everyone on the internet feels the need to debunk it, on the supposition that people believed it in the first place. A rare snowstorm hitting Georgia and the deep south of the U.S., probably the first such snowstorm in the YouTube era. If anyone really did believe the "fake snow" claims, it shows just how stupid we humans are.
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Post by Mathieas on Feb 3, 2014 18:09:43 GMT -5
www.truthrevolt.org/news/slate-snow-didnt-paralyze-atlanta-racism-didIt wasn't fake snow, it was racism! The Slate’s Tracy Thompson asks, “What does racism have to do with gridlock?” Her answer, “In Atlanta, everything.” What follows is a case study in liberal logic in regards to all things South: Racism is the root of all problems—especially when you’re talking about progressive darlings like mass transit. Thompson casts last week's zombie-apocalypse-esque Atlanta traffic disaster in terms of the racial/racist history of the South: As it was in the days of the Civil War, it still is in Thompson’s Atlanta. Drawing from the highly critical and reductive classism and racism-focused description of the south by W.J. Cash, Thompson provides what she believes to be the perpetual definitive portrait of southerners: Thompson uses Cash’s description as the framework for her writes-itself explanation of a traffic nightmare that affected all people of all creeds and colors last week—and brought out the best in those people—stating that “you cannot separate anything in the South entirely” from race, and ultimately arguing that the real answer is mass transit. If Atlantans can somehow get over their ingrained racist hatred for it, that is. So there you have it. Racism caused the traffic jams that crippled Atlanta. Disagree? Well, if you’re from the south, it’s hard to “separate anything” you think from racism, so...
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Post by Milowent on Feb 4, 2014 8:20:19 GMT -5
the essay being critiqued is rather rambling, it doesn't do a good job of concretely tying racism to this traffic jam. the lack of regional mass transit planning in Atlanta has been influenced by racism, but I'd say its far more about Atlanta being a city which expanded during the heydey of the automobile -- the region has tons of sprawl (influenced in part by white flight) and tons of highways. that's a recipe for disaster when they get a few inches of snow.
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