Tulsa

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Tulsa is a recurring place in the Astral Codex Ten archive, appearing 2 times across 2 issues between May 21, 2021 and April 20, 2023. The archive places it in contexts such as “Cities such as Pittsburgh, St. Paul, and Tulsa”; “Birthright trip to Tulsa, Oklahoma”; “very lucrative packages of benefits to Jews who move to Tulsa”. It most often appears alongside Africa, Europe, 15 minute cities.

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  • Category: Places
  • Mention count: 2
  • Issue count: 2
  • First seen: May 21, 2021
  • Last seen: April 20, 2023

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Recovered passages from the original issue text. When the raw archive preserved outbound links inside the source passage, they are listed directly under the quote.

May 21, 2021 · Original source
Cities such as Pittsburgh, St. Paul, and Tulsa are effectively ocean ports, thanks to the extensive navigable waterways.
April 20, 2023 · Original source
28: Trevor Klee’s “Birthright” trip to Tulsa, Oklahoma. Tulsa has some oil billionaires fighting to keep it a good place to live while the rest of the Midwest hollows out, apparently successfully. In particular, two of the billionaires are Jewish and want to preserve Tulsa’s Jewish community. They’re offering very lucrative packages of benefits (including guaranteed cushy jobs at their nonprofits, or extraordinary levels of financial support for creative/business projects) to Jews who move to Tulsa.
A free public playground in Tulsa. Public-spirited oil billionaires + very cheap land + quick review process is apparently a winning combination. Trevor’s understandably morally anxious about benefiting from his Jewish ethnicity. Should he be? Is this any worse than benefiting from white privilege or male privilege or whatever other forms of privilege they’ve invented since I last checked? Is it any worse than benefiting from being an American, and so having access to social support and benefit programs that Sudanese and Bangladeshis can only dream of? I’m not sure.