City Pages is known for in-depth reporting with emotive flair. They are the reason I read the article.
The language is common today. Everywhere. I’m close to being a hermit and I’m 74 and the article did not shock, outrage or disgust me. It is how people speak. It is indicative of the global culture.
I remember not only when no one spoke this way, I recall returning to college in 1966 and being encouraged to say these words and tolerate hearing them. Forty years down the road, we are at the entrance to the liberal goal.
The hipsters wanted this. They think it is edgy, just like they think diversity means colorful native dress and exotic restaurants. They believe resentment belongs to white, middle-class trogs who voted for Trump. They never accept that there is a thing to fear from cultural degradation. They expect beneficiaries of socialistic programs to be filled with gratitude. They are probably a bit embarrassed to have experienced fear up close and personal.
I will bet most residents of the Cities are already inured to it, if they don’t practice it themselves. As for me and my husband, almost daily we are grateful we traveled the world in the 1970s, 80s and 90s and then chose to live in rural America, relatively isolated. I never thought I’d appreciate being old, but there ya go: I really don’t want to live in the midst of the actual Fall of Civilization.
I was in downtown Seattle today and what an eyesore it has become. Below the ultra modern skyscrapers going up are the homeless tents right on the sidewalks. People are shooting up right on the sidewalk and pushing shopping carts loaded with whatever they can get for free. Every street has them. They are everywhere. The policies of the Left has become a magnet for dependency and tribal living.