Do you agree with race realism?

It sounds like a non issue with no reason to research it. I was asking you to explain why it's a big issue. I'm guessing you can't do that.

 

1) No, they won't. Everyone over the age of ten knows that fast food and processed crap is bad for health, so suggesting it's a lack of knowledge puts the problem squarely on the individuals in any given family to rectify. Since the information on this stuff is available to all, and all kids are taught about it in school, then clearly individual families are failing to talk about it to the extent they need to - by choice. Meantime, healthy eating is cheaper than bad eating, so no point talking about 'means'.

2) Okay, explain how non-Asian POC are being forced to eat a western diet, while Asians are not. Give us the exact mechanism.

 

Okay I'll hold your hand and get an article for you on why it is a big issue, but be a big boy and read it yourself.......https://foodispower.org/access-health/food-deserts/

 

Food is power. So why aren't African Americans empowering themselves via good food choices?

 

Just not cheap. Which was the point.

Sad but true.

 

I am doing no such thing.
This whole topic started because I said poor people take the cheap easy products of process foods that lack nutrition.

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LOL. Your kids are all the people in the world. LOL.

 

And we know that's a nonsense. The poorest people on earth are NOT eating burgers and frozen meals .. they're eating rice and beans.

So you are literally emphasising that it's down to laziness.

 

No, they're not. That's the point. If 10 year olds can be taught to cook a basic meal in 30 minutes, what excuse do grown adults have for not figuring it out in a lifetime?

 

Where did I say that?

It's not a matter of poverty. In NYC cars are really useless in some areas due to traffic and are expensive to keep because of parking concerns. That may have changed now due to Covid but will change right back if an when "normalcy" returns.

 

I’m sorry but theft is a problem in poor neighborhoods. Given recent events, so is looting. Blaming everything on whites seems rather childish and it never hurt anyone to walk or take public transportation. I don’t even have a car.

 

And I showed that they may be easy, but are not cheap.

 

After 60 years in business "theft and looting" did not effect the chain's profit margin enough to cause it to close, but dollar stores siphoned off enough of its profit margin to do just that. How is that blaming whitey?

 

So should dollar stores be made illegal as they harm the profit margin of other businesses? I’m not clear as to what businesses should be made illegal under your view of limited capitalism.

 

see post #815
Dollar stores need to be spaced far enough apart to make grocery stores profitable. Other types of businesses are regulated where they can build.

 

So you are not a fan of full capitalism or of any enterprises that don’t benefit your limited entrepreneurial spirit if competition threatens you! I get it!

 

I am a fan of regulated capitalism for the public good and you're not?

 

OK your article restated what you've already said in this thread as well as things myself and others have said. If anything, the main issue is the existence of cities. High population density areas seem to be unhealthy for children and other living things. Maybe they should be banned so people can live healthier lifestyles.

 

So food deserts are the result of dollar stores and there were no food desert before the advent of dollar stores?

Weirdly, there is a dollar store across the street from my nearest supermarket. There doesn't seem to be in any real competition between the two since they've existed that way for years.

 

I think I've made the answer to that obvious by now. They exacerbated the problem. Inner city small mom and pop groceries could not compete price wise with dollar stores and dollar stores only sell non-perishables.

 

That's not even true. I'm a frequenter of dollar stores and all the ones in my area have a refrigerated area.

 

My approach would to let those who want to live in cities do so, but on the agreement they won't be rescued in emergencies. If there's worse plague or pestilence, or a war or some disaster which shuts down supply lines and utilities ... cities will necessarily be impacted heavily. That would be the risk you sign up for. It's already partly true in any case .. city folk suffer vastly more than non-city folk.

Few sane people with a family would make the choice, so you'd be left with random dissolutes and weirdos. Let 'em have it.

 

You can do quite well food shopping at most Dollar stores. You have to be careful and bargain hunt but that applies to Wegmans and even Whole Foods

 

Technology may be making cities obsolete. That's been exacerbated by Covid, and many employees may never return to their downtown cubicles. So with fewer jobs, why live there. The future city may simply be co-located universities and museums.

 

Lil Mike I must agree. Office towers were already obsolete Covid just accelerated it pushing more of us to use zoom, etc., faster. Question is what happens to these glass towers?