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Alex Petre
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The "Bronx is Burning" Era
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The phenomenon you're describing has deep historical roots in the Bronx. During the 1970s and 1980s, the South Bronx experienced one of the most devastating periods of arson-for-insurance fraud in American urban history:
Scale of Historical Arson: In total, over 80% of the South Bronx was burned or abandoned between 1970
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Laughlin’s credo was simple: “To purify the breeding stock of the race at all costs.” As journalist Edwin Black notes in his 2003 book, War Against the Weak, Laughlin’s plan of attack was threefold: “sterilization, mass incarceration and sweeping immigration restrictions.” In furtherance of these goals, Laughlin created the imposingly named, feroci
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Joshua Kroo
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