Rojo27 [he/him]

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Cake day: July 29th, 2020

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  • They ended up canceling my appointment to view the apartment because so many applications were submitted.

    Honestly, I’m just tired of how scummy the real estate market is. Aside from the fact that everything is overpriced, the brokers out here just straight up try to rob you blind for their own pay days.

    I’ve toured apartments that I kinda liked and wanted to apply to only to have the broker ask for a huge deposit before even being approved.

    This one, from one of the more well known and “respected” real estate brokerages, was pretty much a bait and switch. They listed one price, but pretty much auctioned of the apartment. For a rental…

    I would imagine these practices have to draw complaints but all the local politicians are in the pockets of real estate.








  • I think part of it might just be that there are people who legit just don’t think its a thing and therefore they just get used to telling people white supremacy is bad.

    Which reminds me of a conversation two of my coworkers were having. I didn’t really catch quite everything that was said, but to summarize one coworker (conservative POC) was talking about how an older POC woman was debating him on ideas of relationships and family building. Her argument seemed to have ended with “gender roles and the idea of traditional families is rooted in white supremacy” to paraphrase his paraphrasing of it lol. And my other coworker (liberal or at least more lib leaning POC) agreed with him that that was a weird position to have. I kept wonder if the woman that brought up white supremacy even attempted to explain why that is, so I kept wanting to jump in on the conversation to explain a bit, but I was busy talking with someone else about something work related so I ended up not being able to.

    Anyway, what I want to say is that there are still a lot of people who can’t make the connection and my hope is that people who bring up “thing is bad because of white supremacy” can educate people on why. For example, in this case if the person making that argument didn’t really have the time to explain why white supremacy informs a lot of conservative opinions on gender roles and trad families then at the very least recommend reading someone like Bell Hooks, who I think pretty eloquently lays it all out, especially in Will To Change.

    Of course I can also see the hang up possibly coming from trying to explain what we do about it because a lot of the same people that say this also end up being massive libs who thouth that the US having a black president was going to change things and the only reason it didn’t was because racists got more racist and not that Obama was upholding one wing of American fascism.