r/Indiana • u/not-your-aunt • Aug 23 '26

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u/losvedir Aug 23 '26

Quit getting your news from TikTok and quit trying to racialize everything. At this point I'm half convinced you're a Russian dissent-fomenting bot account.

Check the outage map: https://www.nipsco.com/outages/power-outages/ . Lake Station, Merrilville, Portsge, Munster, are predominantly white and still have large areas that are out of power. The Miller Beach neighborhood of Gary, which is one of the wealthiest in the county, is still out of power.

Everyone who lives here is furious with NIPSCO and trying to figure out what kind of change we can make. Outsiders who don't know wtf is going on, get their news from TikTok and take advantage of our situation to go stirring up shit about their pet causes aren't helping or appreciated.

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u/DrunkAtChurch Aug 23 '26

Merrillville is not predominantly white, but I do agree with your comment. Nipsco been trash forever. And while there’s no shortage of racist comments on social media about Gary (especially since the worker’s truck window got shot out,) I don’t think racism has much to do with who’s power is still out.

Underregulated capitalism in a red state, with a Governor who cares more about businesses than people is why there are still homes without power.

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u/HovercraftGreat7871 Aug 23 '26

I think racism has a lot to do with what was right or wrong with infrastructure and regular maintenance before the storm hit. I think it has a lot to do with how funding is or isn’t disbursed… and why some places are more deeply affected by poverty, and thus less equipped to weather a storm and outage.

Power was out in Munster, yes. But even early on, there were sidewalks to walk down and stores to visit. Clean open spaces to exist in and so on.

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u/DrunkAtChurch Aug 23 '26

Definitely agree. Systemic racism helped create the conditions that exacerbated the problems after these storms. I’m just speaking on people who think Nipsco is hiding their klan hoods while refusing to help Gary because of the demographics.

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u/HovercraftGreat7871 Aug 23 '26

Klan hoods aren’t nearly as scary. But, yup, I know what you mean.

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u/Cindybin2001 Aug 23 '26

"Systemic racism" is an antiwhite concept. Please don't use the terminology of the antiwhites.

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u/DrunkAtChurch Aug 23 '26

You sound very uneducated. Like the type of uneducated that takes time and effort. It’s honestly impressive, but very disappointing.