The BBC has no leftist bias at all.

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FACT: In America, Black people are more likely to be "poor" than White people.
FACT: In America, Black people are more likely to live in lower quality housing than White people.

FACT: Lower quality housing is more likely to suffer during extreme heat events due to reduced local greenery, reduced air conditioning, increased housing concentration, etc.

Conclusion: In America, Black people are more likely than White people to suffer during extreme heat events.

This isn't wokery or Leftist bias. This is quite simple and obvious. The "answer" isn't to tell them to work harder or buy air-conditioning. Racial inequality in the US isn't something that can simply be overcome by hard work.

And being Black doesn't somehow mean that extreme heat can be tolerated more easily! Black skin increases the resistance to UV not heat.
 
MikeTimbers said:
FACT: In America, Black people are more likely to be "poor" than White people.
FACT: In America, Black people are more likely to live in lower quality housing than White people.

FACT: Lower quality housing is more likely to suffer during extreme heat events due to reduced local greenery, reduced air conditioning, increased housing concentration, etc.

Conclusion: In America, Black people are more likely than White people to suffer during extreme heat events.

This isn't wokery or Leftist bias. This is quite simple and obvious. The "answer" isn't to tell them to work harder or buy air-conditioning. Racial inequality in the US isn't something that can simply be overcome by hard work.

And being Black doesn't somehow mean that extreme heat can be tolerated more easily! Black skin increases the resistance to UV not heat.
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Tell that to Whitney Houston, Will Smith, Bill Cosby, Barak Obama etc etc pretty sure they all did financial well for themselves.
 
VincentHanna said:
Ha, you guys are on a roll today.

Nelson Mandela became president of South Africa. Guess there was no racism in that country...
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The OP has nothing to do with SA.

There's plenty of examples of persons of colour in the US in well paid jobs so unless you have substantial evidence that well paid individuals are being forced to live in down town sub standard conditions then it's not racist but of someone's necessity since they've not applied themselves adequately to obtain a decent education.
 
thenewoc said:
Any bias is self inflicted if they choose not to apply themselves in school and beyond.
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Do you understand that we're not talking individual specifics here? poorer people tend to have access to lower quality schools, lower quality housing, lower quality medical care, lower quality nutrition. This isn't about colour, just social access. So it tends to be harder for poorer people to rise to the top. Picking out individual cases to counter tendencies is inane.

A poor person (irrespective of colour) will likely attend a poor school, have access to poor role models around them, be under pressure to take a job as soon as possible to help feed their families. They won't have access to further education because they need to be earning not spending.

If a white middle class person achieves success does that mean there is nothing stopping poor white people being successful? Because a white middle class person able to attend a good middle class school, more likely to have both parents around, food on the table etc. does that mean there is nothing stopping a poor person from achieving the same?

Of course there are exception!!!! We're talking tendencies here. In America, black people are more likely to be poor than white people. Are you saying that it's their fault? That somehow, these poor black people just aren't trying?

FFS.
 
MikeTimbers said:
A poor person (irrespective of colour) will likely attend a poor school, have access to poor role models around them, be under pressure to take a job as soon as possible to help feed their families. They won't have access to further education because they need to be earning not spending.

If a white middle class person achieves success does that mean there is nothing stopping poor white people being successful? Because a white middle class person able to attend a good middle class school, more likely to have both parents around, food on the table etc. does that mean there is nothing stopping a poor person from achieving the same?

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There is plenty of evidence supporting your points. I think the House of Commons Education Select Committee published a report on this a week or two back.
 
Although I agree that the BBC is not what it used to be, I think your OP is a little bit of an over reaction/crude take on things. I do believe that looking at everything through the lens of group identity/focusing on group identities such as race in the way that they seem to increasingly be doing is indicative of their political leaning, but you can and must do better than the arguments you've put forward if you wish to be successful in combatting it ans/or convincing people. Simply putting climate racism within quotation marks doesn't remove responsibility of the publisher for legitimising such terms.

I disagree with the implication within this thread that this is a problem that needs to be fixed though. If a socioeconomic group are most affected, and a particular racial group happen to be disproportionately affected because they're disproportionately part of that group, then the best way to fix the issue is to focus on the socioeconomic group, not the racial one. I recognise that this point isn't the one being made in the article in the OP necessarily, but it's one that seems to be being made a few posts up.
 
I am convinced that the OP is a world class troll. All of their threads end up a confusing mess of squabbling and pointless debate.
 
Poor black people more often tend to live in cities so are more affected by what's shown in the report, poor white people tend to live in more rural areas so will face different problems, such as job opportunities. I know everyone has decided that America is racist, but white people aren't the top performing group in America, plenty of groups out perform "White Americans" in America https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_ethnic_groups_in_the_United_States_by_household_income
 
The BBC have been lib-tards for years.
The libs news stays on the countries page for months.

The bbc even think that more blacks get killed by cops than whites.
 
BallistixOnZ490 said:
These exacerbate the impacts of rising temperatures and a changing climate.
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living in a multi story building does for sure which I'm assuming most of these areas will be, like multi-storey apartments and flats.

I live on the top floor, only the 4th floor with 2 other apartments under me, gets stupid hot in the summer.

It's like 10c+ over outside even with the windows open.

It's not racist though is it... it's a by product of living in a crap area.

there's not really any green areas to escape to if I want a rest from the heat... it's like go for a boring urban walk because there's nowhere outside to chill out
 
arknor said:
living in a multi story building does for sure which I'm assuming most of these areas will be, like multi-storey apartments and flats.

I live on the top floor, only the 4th floor with 2 other apartments under me, gets stupid hot in the summer.

It's like 10c+ over outside even with the windows open.

It's not racist though is it... it's a by product of living in a crap area
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Air -con in the US is dirt cheap.
Everyone and his dog has one
 
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