Environmental Racism: Last Week Tonight with John Oliver (HBO)

Correlation isn’t causation. Just because people of different races experience things at different rates doesn’t automatically make whatever you’re talking about “racist”

In Mexico they burn all their trash, ask the residents of San Diego….

OMG I just had my first legit spit take when he said the wooden teeth anal splinters bit

D: too far for the pandas

Maybe I'm white as hell, I liked the hummingbird pillow...

Just for the record Washington didn’t have wooden teeth

I will admit that first thing that popped into my head when reading the title of this video for the first time was "... so like... racist storms? Like 'Watch out Dorothy, here comes hurricane Kkkatrina!' "

When people talk about repatriations, this is the form I support, the victims of red lining.

And lets talk about how much better the black man was than the white guy in that interview. Desperate, needing a way out and he couldn't bring himself to screw over his fellow human being. Meanwhile, the white dude was obsessed with greed and hate and would do and say anything to line his pockets.

People of colour? So poor white people don't fit into this? ...

It's not racism, its poor people get treated bad. The fact that more black folks are poor, makes them susceptible. If you want change, we need to vote out established candidates.

🙈❓️I know, this is a very arrogant stance and we've got many problems of our own. But, all Europeans who watch this just don't understand why and how a country can do this to its own people. Repeatedly, with every episode I watch.

"Why should I move?", uh..........why move away from cancer alley? If you cant, ok. Wont out of pride? Facepalm

Not racism it's classiscm rich vs poor

He who comments on '68 is doomed! Richmond, CA is such an example. Oh yeah, Dat ting' bout tumor.. He 'still a live..

Great comments on antiquated news media exploitation.

A someone who lives in Louisiana in an apartment with the air quality is horrendous even with air purifiers and severe water issues this doesn't even begin to touch the surface

You leave my brethren alone hahahah
In relation, I’d like to hear your take on how noise or light pollution affects us.

Where do they come up with these numbers?

The Clinton administration established a Green Chemistry Award, which was an annual event where inventors of lower-impact industrial processes would get awards. One of the big technologies is using CO2 as an industrial solvent in place of petroleum distillates. The Bush administration killed it.

I didn’t know the environment can be racist

I would think including assassination one liners would be something a comedy show would avoid. Also Washington didn't have wooden teeth. They were mostly ivory with a wire frame and some historians speculate some of his teeth were from slaves

Having a pipeline go a round about way instead of a straight line. depending on who lives there is complete bullshit.

We have a hallocitic acid problem in the water at home. We get too much plant matter in our water, which reacts with metal pipes and bleach to create an irritating carcinogen. For almost 20 years its been the joke of the u.s., as i live in Ketchikan alaska, one of the rainiest places in the world, yet our water is toxic to wash or drink

Where I'm from the whites and Hispanics live by the plants

Go John!
I'm not learning any more numbers either...

the EPA's pollution monitors are turned off on weekends and holidays

Why are you attacking a reporter for giving a resident a setup question to have a straight shot at explaining their situation?

I came across this episode and it reminded me of a low income, federally funded housing area that was newly constructed in San Francisco near the old candlestick park ballpark named, The Alice Griffith Apartments. The old housing project locally known as the Double Rock projects was demolished and the new Alice Griffith housing took its place. Here's the thing, all of the land that the new places sit on are and has been for decades, contaminated. The land is toxic and has been linked to people increasing probability of developing and dieing from Cancer. Even though the property management firm(The John Stewart Group) and the city government are fully aware of this, in order to NOT be held liable for any health concerns stemming from the area, all they had to do was post a few signs stating that little fact. Btw, everything that I mentioned can be found online for public consumption.

A reminder of what Molly Ivans said long ago, "There is no left and right, only top and bottom."

FIFTY YEARS EVERY SENATOR & STATE REPRESENTATIVE, HAVE RECEIVED INFORMATION OF? DO WE 💋 KISS-up TO POISON CREATORS OR FORCE THEM TO RELOCATE ALL CITIZENS FIRST? BUT THEY ZIP-IT ! Helping no one to move?

Even Hitler can learn one or two about racism from US of A....

They do teach that George Washington had wooden teeth. But that wasn’t entirely true. He had teeth made from wood, sheep bone, and slave teeth.

Isn't this basically the reason Alaska pays the dividend 😂

That is the DUMBEST shit I have ever heard.

Ridiculous

its Classism not racism

Yellow Occultism and Metalsmithing
Somebody should sue religion and mass media for creating a concept of good and evil where evil holds all the relevant keys and quality characters. Why don’t they put the truth in the information warfare? Then we’ll just take everything. Keep the shrunken heads.
-The Grinch Who Stole Evil

the difference is, no invasion = no isis. You can't eat your own analogy's tail mate x

I actually think a TRULY colorblind solution might work.
The GOP managed to harm black people for decades without naming color as a factor, so it should be possible to do the same in reverse by using the same tactics.

How can the environmental-activists be so shallow, unaware and oblivious of basic contradictions and fallacies of corporate-backed "green policy" fads. When I graduated from highschool in the 2010s, the environmentalist politics was pushed onto us hard, but even then in my youth, I still had suspicions that it was moreso a gimmick rather than substantiated by sense, and I knew EPA was a corrupt and criminal federal department responsible for increasing wildlife destruction, not preserving it, and I knew that coal and fossil-fuels were not as evil as they had been portrayed to be....so, of course, it was only a matter of time before I went from being liberal, to becoming a classical-liberal/paleo-conservative...because really, it's all our environmental issues are caused by overpopulation and modern liberalism. Destruction of wildlife and international-rivalry for acquiring finite natural resources is not something that can be totally or completely solved, it can only be managed intelligently, and the best way to achieve that would have been if the axis powers had won the war. All our views and opinions about humane treatment of animals, wildlife conservation, and optimizing use of resources stem and originate either from old-school conservative values and/or nationalistic values.

"Failing" these communities falsely implies anyone was trying. "Sacrificing" these communities falsely implies the purpose was to save something else. The state of these places and the misery of the people who were boxed in by a fake choice of live here or be driven from the country entirely with no home, no claim to citizenship elsewhere, no money, and will be treated just as bad by the very same people screwing them long distance and their *drive to introduce health problems passed down by generations to the slow point of extinction" is the point.

We Suck

While I appreciate what you talked about and I understand that you probably have time constraints, the fact you did not even MENTION Standing Rock and DAPL is insulting.

How can these companies and politicians not see the obvious problems with the term "Sacrifice Zone"?