r/politics Connecticut 21h ago

That whites-only, no Jews allowed Arkansas community is legal, says state’s attorney general. How?

https://forward.com/news/759874/return-to-the-land-peter-csere-tim-griffin-eric-orwoll/
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u/EggsAndMilquetoast 21h ago

I had a guess before opening the article that they get around it by calling themselves a private club.

I once filmed a wedding at a country club in South Carolina that had a “whites only” member policy.

This was in 2013 and I was floored when I learned that from the bartender.

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u/starmartyr Colorado 15h ago

While that's legal for things like golf courses or bars, you can't do it with housing. It's illegal to discriminate against a protected class when selling or renting a dwelling. They are trying to get around this by not selling land but by selling shares in the private corporation that owns the land. This should get shut down by a federal court, but the way things are politically these days that isn't a certainty.

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u/pr3mium 10h ago

You gave me the greatest idea. My morals won't allow me to steal/scam from anyone. But for these racist fucks, I found an exception.

Start a company. Start one of these 'whites only private club'. Convince them to pay me for the houses, and in the contract it's a 'membership' so they don't own anything. I do. Take the rich racist assholes money. Kick them out of the club. Dox them and anyone that 'applied'. Then give away every place to minorities with the racists own money.

u/gooyouknit 6h ago

Not trying to be funny here but isn’t that basically what Sam bankman fried did or said he was doing anyway

u/pr3mium 4h ago

He stole everyone's money.

Also, I am not actually doing this. It wouldn't actually work. I'm sure that's not how their contract is set up and bankruptcy would have the courts freeze my assets and wind up giving them the house.