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Blue Cat Cafe Was Vandalized on First Anniversary
Eater ^ | October 25, 2016 | Nadia Chaudhury

Posted on 10/26/2016 11:05:26 AM PDT by beaversmom

On the heels of Blue Cat Cafe’s anniversary, Austin’s first cat cafe was vandalized on Friday, October 21. Statesman reported that someone spray painted "Fuck you gentrified scum" on the cafe’s door and front of its adjacent food trailer. The person or persons also glued the doors shut.

Blue Cat Cafe’s grounds on East Cesar Chavez are controversial. It is adjacent to the lot that used to house pinata store Jumpolin, which was suddenly demolished in 2015. The land is owned by F&F Real Estate Ventures, run by Jordan French and Darius Fisher. People call the razing as unfair, and don’t believe any business they see as benefiting F&F (i.e. paying rent) should exist on the property. This includes the cat cafe.

Later that day on Friday, a group, Defend Our Hoodz, held a protest outside of the cafe on East Cesar Chavez, calling for a boycott of Blue Cat and and its landlord F&F Real Estate. The protesters said they weren’t involved with the vandalism.

Someone started a GoFundMe page to help raise funds for the cafe's repairs, which as of publishing time, was close to completing its goal.

When Blue Cat Cafe debuted last year, protesters greeted the opening day. Owner Rebecca Gray launched a Kickstarter campaign to open Austin’s first cat cafe last year in February, and raised the funds by April 2015. She quickly found the location on East Cesar Chavez. Guests can play with the adoptable cats and do other cafe activities. The on-site trailer serves up vegan food and coffee.


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; News/Current Events; US: Texas
KEYWORDS: kittyping
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To: beaversmom

A win-win in my book. Liberal opens a cat friendly vegan cafe in a black neighborhood and it got vandalized. A win in my book, because maybe, just maybe, it’ll open her eyes (but I kind of doubt it). Hood rats burn the revenue earning cafe down for whatever racist reason. Another win in my book, because I’ve gotten to the point with them as I have with muslims, as long as they are self destructive, killing each other, blame everyone but the one in the mirror type cultures, I just don’t give a flying 2 cents anymore.


21 posted on 10/26/2016 11:42:54 AM PDT by mikefive (RLTW)
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To: beaversmom

I dunno, they said the felines are adoptable so I’m guessing you can grab one, and take it home to sleep with you too!


22 posted on 10/26/2016 11:45:08 AM PDT by SoCal Pubbie
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To: SoCal Pubbie

You might be right. Grab and go!


23 posted on 10/26/2016 11:47:16 AM PDT by beaversmom
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To: beaversmom

Were any suspicious dogs reported?


24 posted on 10/26/2016 11:48:16 AM PDT by zeugma (Welcome to the "interesting times" you were warned about.)
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To: Covenantor

Looks like a converted gas station


25 posted on 10/26/2016 11:50:01 AM PDT by kaktuskid
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To: zeugma
Were any suspicious dogs reported?

No. Well, none that looked guilty, at any rate...

26 posted on 10/26/2016 11:51:31 AM PDT by Billthedrill
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To: Covenantor

Jumpolin - sorta rhymes with their radio hero, Piolin.


27 posted on 10/26/2016 11:53:48 AM PDT by Jane Long (Go Trump, go! Make America Safe Again :)
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To: Billthedrill

28 posted on 10/26/2016 11:55:51 AM PDT by JediJones (Social conservatism is the root of all conservatism.)
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To: beaversmom

Haha, I remember when they started tearing down old solid buildings and throwing up poorly built condos everywhere in my neighborhood during the real estate boom. Someone would go around spraypainting “Die Yuppie Scum” on all the new buildings :D


29 posted on 10/26/2016 11:56:36 AM PDT by Boogieman
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To: Jane Long

Yeah, I’m sure a “cat cafe” serving vegan food is going to bring a lot of jobs to a low income Mexican neighborhood.

/s


30 posted on 10/26/2016 11:58:00 AM PDT by Boogieman
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To: dsrtsage

“Gentrification always causes a catastrophic reduction of criminality in a neighborhood making it less “real””

Meh, plenty of gentrification affects lower income white neighborhoods that never had a high crime rate in the first place.


31 posted on 10/26/2016 11:59:43 AM PDT by Boogieman
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To: beaversmom

Only a college educated “smart” SJW would use the word “gentrified.” It’s all the rage now.


32 posted on 10/26/2016 12:02:57 PM PDT by Organic Panic (Hillary Clinton, the elderly woman's version of "I dindu nuffins.")
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To: dsrtsage

Street Cred = Real Crime.


33 posted on 10/26/2016 12:03:04 PM PDT by YogicCowboy ("I am not entirely on anyone's side, because no one is entirely on mine." - JRRT)
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To: BenLurkin

Spiritually: Original Sin.

Politically: Communist Education.


34 posted on 10/26/2016 12:06:37 PM PDT by YogicCowboy ("I am not entirely on anyone's side, because no one is entirely on mine." - JRRT)
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To: Boogieman

“Meh, plenty of gentrification affects lower income white neighborhoods that never had a high crime rate in the first place.”

Impossible. I have been repeatedly told throughout my life that low income is the cause of all crime. Heck my mother and grandmother didn’t even have hot and cold running water, and they shot up the neighborhood almost weekly.


35 posted on 10/26/2016 12:08:39 PM PDT by dsrtsage (One half of all people have below average IQ. In the US the number is 54%)
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To: Boogieman

A video for you...talks about new architecture as well as other forms of “beauty”:

Why Beauty Matters
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bHw4MMEnmpc


36 posted on 10/26/2016 12:24:54 PM PDT by beaversmom
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To: lee martell

“Some lib idiot is likely to throw a brick or Molotov cocktail through the window...”

No no no. The libs are the ones being attacked. You’re not keeping up. :-) It’s the liberal people of pallor who erroneously think that the people of color, whose cause the liberals have championed lo these many years, truly wish to **coexist.**
That erroneous thinking is coming ‘round to bite them in the ass.

Turns out the people of color do not, in fact, want **them** coexisting next door. The downtrodden and oppressed masses have no interest in having “da hood” cleaned up and rid of blight, graffiti, and crime; and even less in having the property values increased; the natives regard the meddling, gentrifying fixer-uppers as colonialists, the local version of imperialists.

The only righteous way to respond to this out outrageous intrusion in neighborhood self-determination is with a necklace party.


37 posted on 10/26/2016 12:27:20 PM PDT by mumblypeg (We've had a p***y in the White House for 8 years. Make America Macho Again.)
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To: Dr. Sivana

38 posted on 10/26/2016 12:27:39 PM PDT by Rebelbase (DRAIN THE SWAMP!)
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To: SoCal Pubbie

Keyboard spew!

That (adopt a cat) is what they want folks to do.
They should word it that way in their advertising.


39 posted on 10/26/2016 12:31:17 PM PDT by mumblypeg (We've had a p***y in the White House for 8 years. Make America Macho Again.)
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To: beaversmom

Felophobes and felopaths inciting class- and species-wars.


40 posted on 10/26/2016 12:37:29 PM PDT by caddie
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