That singular thing is not representative of the culture or policy at large, is over 100 years old, and isn't the present reality. Broadly speaking California and specifically LA are the most culturally progressive places on earth.
Yes, those rules existed in various rich neighborhoods at times in the past. They don't anymore. What's your point? My claim is not that there were no racists or racist policies at all within the LA area.
So yeah, that's a straw man. And a very pathetic one at that.
>whereas LA existed as indigenous land, and as Mexico, before it was part of the US, and that attitude has allowed immigrants to set roots here and claim identity and belonging in a way that no other place does or has.
Your own comment references a time before California was even a part of Mexico.
A more recent example.
>When South Vietnam and Cambodia fell to communists in April 1975, Gov. Brown, who had just succeeded Ronald Reagan, fought the arrival of hundreds of thousands of Vietnamese and Cambodian refugees. In the process, Mr. Brown and other Democrats engaged in xenophobic rhetoric.
The reason for my comment about the historicity of Los Angeles was to establish that it has its roots in an indigenous and multi-cultural understanding of its people. Quite the contrast to the way things went down with the colonies.
Whereas the random bits of historical information you are bringing up do not speak to a lasting or pervasive reality.
LA is a "sanctuary city" and that is the reason it is currently being targeted by the fascists with the federal troop occupation.
Anyway you are making bad faith and low effort arguments. If you dislike the place, just admit it.
As for whether LA is magical - "Magical" is literally one of the most common words used to describe LA and SoCal in general, as in, it is part of the zeitgeist that LA is "La La Land" (meaning for better or worse, the place where creatives pursue their dreams and/or delusions).
Every detail of your comments fall apart upon close inspection.
You are not making valid arguments. You are hating. Admit it.
Definitely not California which is literally the birth place of modern conservatism.
Thank you for helping out. Usually I would of given up earlier, but I couldn't let someone say California has always been welcoming to immigrants unanswered.
Apart of being better as people is looking at the past and facing it.
That singular thing is not representative of the culture or policy at large, is over 100 years old, and isn't the present reality. Broadly speaking California and specifically LA are the most culturally progressive places on earth.
Yes, those rules existed in various rich neighborhoods at times in the past. They don't anymore. What's your point? My claim is not that there were no racists or racist policies at all within the LA area.
So yeah, that's a straw man. And a very pathetic one at that.