alex wrote:the Classical wrote:hipsters who bitch about neighborhoods being gentrified
Okay let’s have it. Let’s hear a defense of gentrification that goes beyond the most myopic, monastic, community- spurning self- interest. You’re all thoughtful people, I’m sure you can say something reasonable about this.
First off, yr not correctly playing kenny, see you have to do a just better and then a just worse.
Second, I am only one dude so I don't know why yr referring to me as "people".
Third, if you re-read what I wrote I was not defending gentrification, I was pointing out I can't stand hip people sitting in coffee shops, smoking clove cigarettes, drinking lattes and bemoaning how a certain neighborhood has lost its "charm", when, imho, those are the same people who are the frontline of gentrification itself. Where the urban hipster goes, the developer is not far behind kind of thing.
Finally, kenny, and posting on internet messageboards in general, is a entertaining timewaster, I wasn't trying to make a sweeping political statement (and if I did or if I do, I apologise profoundly). I was being glib.
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