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I hate when people automatically associate the word ghetto with black people, it’s honestly annoying asl🙄

Anonymous 5w

Not disagreeing with you, but does this have to do with your roommate or is this just a general rant?

Anonymous 5w

I think people need to acknowledge that “ghetto” was traditionally a word used to describe the living conditions of Jewish people under Nazi occupation-it was state owned and maintained public housing, they were terrible. “Ghetto” in modern context comes from black communities that were sorta forced through systemic racism to live in state owned and maintained public housing properties like Section 8 housing. So when you use the word ghetto, you are talking about those communities

Anonymous 5w

I think that’s a wild assumption that isn’t true for everyone. Ghetto works for many situations.

Anonymous 5w

I use ghetto when ever I feel like I’m gonna be mugged walking somewhere. Doesn’t matter what race lives there. In the country it’s usually the poor ass trailer park filled with whites

Anonymous

#1 5w

My roommate

Anonymous

#3 5w

You didn’t figure out the word “ghetto” from your Jewish grandmother who used it. She didn’t describe a trashy living situation as “ghetto”, I can tell you that. You know the word “ghetto” because of black women. What you mean when you say “ghetto” is “trashy” “cheap” “dirty” “untaken care of”

Anonymous

#2 5w

But it’s generally used in the context that op’s talking abt

Anonymous

#4 5w

Not always. I mean even so, it’s not about being racist. It’s unfortunate circumstances. Like #5 said, it’s associated with white “trash” as well. Just because you think it’s predominantly one way doesn’t make it entirely that way.

Anonymous

#2 5w

where did you hear the word “ghetto” first?

Anonymous

#3 5w

Any neighborhood associated with violence or trashiness.

Anonymous

#3 5w

Idk where. But that is what the context was when I was younger.

Anonymous

#2 5w

What ethnicity makes up the American poverty rate the most? What ethnicity makes up the majority of the population in low income areas and communities?

Anonymous

#2 5w

That’s what I’m saying tho, sure it’s not always used in that way, but the majority of the time it it

Anonymous

#4 5w

*it is

Anonymous

#3 5w

I wouldn’t say rates are a good way to determine anything.

Anonymous

#5 4w

Yeah.. and we’re not gonna point to one race either🤨