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We shouldn't be dumping pollution selectively in poor places at all.

But it is not coincidence: there is a lot of systematic racism (and other discrimination) in the world and in the US on top of that, that keeps not-white (and not 'Christian', not het, not male, not English-speaking) people not rich. The variables are not independent.

Skin colour is prominent in treating some humans as less than human.



Well I'm three of your "not"s, my grandfather was a slave, and I still don't see this as a race issue.




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