[Kid Shelleen]

Interesting article because the author admits he likes "The Nation" and Dave Zirin. I think what he is really upset about is that Zirin, the leftist, appears to blame "neo-liberals" and hipster crowd.

[Boogieman]

“It’s wrong because black neighborhoods in Chicago don’t gentrify. Because white people refuse to move there. Because racism.”

Well, if you define racism as “not wanting to get killed”, okay.

[lacrew]

I’ve never understood the problem with gentrification. People would rather an area remain impoverished and crime riddled?

[driftless2]

Sounds like a cat fight between lefties. One of them found another making such an outrageous lie even he, Hertz, an avowed leftist himself, had to respond. Zirin, to readers not aware, is one of the most (if not the most ) obnoxious leftist "journalists" extant.

In the deranged mind of Zirin evil, white, capitalist ogres are always conspiring to do nasty things to innocent minorities. Like most leftist scribblers, Zirin just cannot admit that many time minorities screw up and fail on their own efforts.

[Lisbon1940]

Andrew McCutchen has a good take on this.