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Polite Racism: How ‘Civility’ and Redlining Still Segregate America


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What if I told you America’s segregation didn’t end — it just learned to smile?

In this explosive episode of The Bearded Signal, JP Dunphy unpacks the brutal truth behind polite oppression: how modern redlining still dictates where we live, learn, and thrive — and how calls for “civility” silence the rage that could break this cycle.

🏠 From zoning laws that keep neighborhoods segregated to tone-policing that keeps marginalized voices quiet, we expose how polite racism is as deadly as the overt kind.

🔥 Highlights include:

  • The illusion of progress: why ZIP code still predicts destiny

  • Gentrification and the new wave of displacement

  • How civility is weaponized to protect the powerful

  • Why rage is a moral response to injustice

  • How we can build a just future beyond polite conversations

This episode isn’t here to comfort you. It’s here to wake you up.

🎧 Listen now. Share it loud. Because silence is the only side that wins when civility becomes a shield for oppression.

#TheBeardedSignal #HousingJustice #EndRedlining #CivilityIsNotJustice #PoliteRacism #AmericanApartheid #StayLoud

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