Posted on 07/06/2020 7:05:29 PM PDT by madprof98
What is new about the nationwide riots of the last week that have followed the death of George Floyd is the convergence of these two previously separate streams—traditional urban riots in poor neighborhoods triggered by police-related incidents, and the ideologically motivated vandalism by young white members of the overclass in downtown districts. This convergence is the result of hub city gentrification.
The deindustrialization of the cities and rising real estate prices have forced most of the working class of all races out of hub cities into low-income suburbs and exurbs. The children of the white urban elite—some of them downwardly mobile for life, some of them just going through the underpaid intern phase of professional careers—have colonized rowhouses where workers once lived and have converted former factories and warehouses into settings for la vie bohème.
This group of 20- and 30-somethings in the new urban bohemia are the constituency for the new progressive left. Children of the managerial overclass . . .engage in purges and cancellations on Twitter and move to Brooklyn on allowances from their parents. They demand that the billionaires be soaked to pay for socialism (translation: Mom and Dad need to increase my allowance).
Gentrification explains why there are so many white young adults, both ordinary protesters and anarchist vandals, compared to African Americans in the videos we see of protests and riots in big cities across the United States, compared to images of urban riots in generations past. . . .
These children of the economic elite end up harming those on whose behalf they pretend to be speaking. . . . Slogans of elite radicals like “Abolish the Police and Prisons” and comparisons of the Border Patrol to the Gestapo are insults to the unionized, working-class Americans of all races employed by those institutions.
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Interesting read.
I have been curious just who these riot ninjas might be.
I get this image of the McKlusky’s kids living in Brooklyn and hating mom and dad soooooooo much because they made them get a part time job at the vegan burrito joint when they just wanted to make street art!!!
get a part time job at the vegan burrito joint when they just wanted to make street art!!!
= = =
Eat some of those vegan burritos, and make some street fart!
Maybe A LOT.
The progressive left sees working people as the problem. They strive for a piece of the franchise, but the left just can’t stand the thought of Joe Schmoe getting that Cadillac or the nice house on the bluff. They’re supposed to stay down amongst the slag heaps and shut up and eat their gruel.
That was very well considered and well written. The author has educated himself thoroughly for a long time.
Members of the progressive left don’t want us to rise to compete in business. That’s why they moved our jobs overseas and passed laws and policies to destroy so many families (unbalanced international trade, feminism, social programs, public education brainwashing, etc.). I learned to build and worked with steel in the ‘70s and knew back then what was ahead of us.
There's people that have entirely valid and legitimate reasons to hate their parents.
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