Moral segregation of blacks threatened South Africa’s urban economy.
Evidence
In South Africa, where to be black is a “mortal sin,” new segregation plans fly in the face of the demands of urban economics: … Despite the stubborn record of the government, few businessmen really believe that the government can carry through the new plans without totally wrecking the country’s economy. — Lyn H. Lofland, World of Strangers_ Order and Action in…, 433
Categorization
Category: Factual Claims
- XREF: Shows the psychic/structural limit of segregation-as-categorical-sorting, paralleling the reader’s theme of civil inattention weaponizing detachment against what it tries to exclude.
- QUESTION: Worth checking: did the 1970s-era apartheid housing plans actually get abandoned because of economic constraints? The author presents the businessman skepticism but not the outcome.
Related
- Apartheid spatial removal contradicted capitalist urban labor demands (similarity 0.92)
- Urban segregation can literally pursue invisibility of a racial group (similarity 0.84)
- Race ideology overrides rational profit calculations in South African economy (similarity 0.79)