i think that show is pretty funny.

apropos of nothing, this article upsets me, as both a thoughtful dude and someone studying cities. the crux of the article is that “progressive cities” (seattle among them) have a lower-than-the-national-average share of african-american residents. this, obviously, represents the new white flight and thus people living in these “progressive cities” are no better than earlier suburban white flight-ers. the article is bad in a number of ways (e.g. making statistics tell the story you want them to (why exclude NYC and LA in one example, but include them in another)), but primarily for taking a narrow-minded view of diversity (national average of african americans = diversity = progressivism). food for thought.

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