Comment by cyanydeez

7 hours ago

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How does this add to the conversation?

The constant history lesson of what something was 80-90 years ago but they aren’t that way anymore but they were doesn’t advance the conversation especially when it has no impact on the actual topic.

  • Adding some context, that they were started out with pretty harmful intentions, to the discussion about how they are harmful today is very on topic.

    > 80-90 years ago

    Today's HOAs are very frequently involved in racial discrimination suits for violations of the Fair Housing Act.

Even if I accepted the premise that racial segregation was the sole reason for their creation, if that's no longer their purpose, why does it matter?

> HOAs exist as a way to enforce racial segregation

How do HOAs enforce racial segregation in monoethnic countries?

"HOAs are most frequently found in the United States, Japan, Canada, Australia, and the Philippines, and to some extent in other countries, such as New Zealand, Israel, Mauritius, South Africa, most of the countries of the European Union, such as Denmark, France, Germany, Spain, the Netherlands, Ireland, Austria, Poland, Hungary, Bulgaria, Greece, Sweden, Belgium, Croatia, the Czech Republic, Latvia, Lithuania, Cyprus, Luxembourg, Estonia, Slovakia and Slovenia, and some of the Latin American countries, such as Chile, Argentina, Brazil and Mexico."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homeowner_association

No. The Democratic Party exists as a way to enforce racial segregation.

Thats no longer the reason they still persist. But their creation was nothing but.