Asian Problem Indeed

Andrés Duany on Mark Lamster’s blog:

You can make the Asians do anything. They can drink their own piss. You tell them do it and they do. There is no comparison between an Asian situation and an American situation. They will do anything they are told. We will not. They will do anything they are told.

I’m not sure what bothers me most about this, the blatant racism, the complete lack of outrage among urbanists or that Scientific American chose to edit the racism out of Duany’s statements and thus presented his arguments in an undeservingly rational light.

Unacceptable no matter how you look at it.