Yeah, I didn't mean it disparagingly or jokingly. Some places in Thailand quite openly cater to all proclivities. (Once when I was backpacking there, some guy came out of a side alley and approached me saying "young girls, beautiful girls!" and when I said no thank you, immediately switched to "young boys, beautiful boys?")
Look at Japan- their housing is surprisingly affordable in Tokyo despite being in a major city. Due to flexible zoning laws, houses can be built almost anywhere. Houses are deprecating assets, like cars, rather than investments, like houses in America/Canada/etc.
So, if I understand you correctly, we need to make houses not "commodities" in an investment sense. But doing so requires producing a lot more housing. That may mean making them "commodities" in a colloquial sense - that they're ordinary, pretty much interchangeable. (Most people, most of the time, don't care very much which brand of potato chips someone brought to the party...)
> For non-Black people, the word should not be spoken as there is almost no context in which it is appropriate or constructive (even when singing a song or reading a script)
Affirmative action is racism, not "reverse-racism". "reverse-racism" is a racist term since it is used to dismiss prejudice against certain races. Racism is racism, no matter the race of the target or the race of the perpetrator.
