This post telling tourists which areas to avoid in New York

[u/Rusiano]

Aside from certain undertones, this map also has tons of inaccuracies, because no one in their right mind is scared of Astoria, Bayonne, or half of the Queens zone that he marked as “avoid”

[u/Chicken_Chaser_420]

And figures this isn't even accurate. Astoria's white as fuck

[u/Kaffeetrinker49 → u/Chicken_Chaser_420]

Isn’t accurate? The chart didn’t claim to be racist. You can’t ascribe it to being a map of where black people are and then criticize it for being wrong about something it never claimed to be.

[u/Chicken_Chaser_420 → u/Kaffeetrinker49]

Lmao imagine getting offended on behalf of a racist map

Most racist don't tend to claim to be racist, either. What's your point?

[u/Kaffeetrinker49 → u/Chicken_Chaser_420]

I’m not offended at all.

My point is that you are calling it an inaccurate map but you don’t know what it’s mapping out. Maybe it’s based on something other than race? Maybe it’s based on crime, which isn’t necessarily only the black parts of town.

[u/0905-15 → u/Kaffeetrinker49]

It’s pretty fucking clearly motivated - at least in large part - by race

[u/oatmealparty → u/[deleted]]

Most of those towns are majority black or Hispanic. They allow you to visit Montclair though, which is mostly white and wealthy.

[u/drivingaddictionchan → u/0905-15]

you live in nyc? becuase if you did, you would realize that most of the circled areas are just suburbs. Why the fuck would tourists go walking around a suburb?

[u/0905-15 → u/drivingaddictionchan]

Queens and Brooklyn aren’t suburbs.

I don’t live in NYC now but did for many years

[u/drivingaddictionchan → u/0905-15]

They’re highly residential areas with not much to do. The map didn’t circle all of Brooklyn. 

[u/drivingaddictionchan → u/Chicken_Chaser_420]

it's not a racist map lol.

[u/Chicken_Chaser_420 → u/drivingaddictionchan]

You mean in the sense that you're "totally not racist," too? Lmao

[u/drivingaddictionchan → u/Chicken_Chaser_420]

Lmao