Ah, more tribal nonsense. Do you remember when there was no "Caribbean" Flatbush at all? But yet it changed, didn't it?
Don't talk down to me about why neighborhoods change in this city because I'm old enough to have seen the many changeovers here. The reason why Flatbush changed is the same reason why every neighborhood in NYC changed. Every generation, there's an influx of immigrants. The immigrants do all the jobs that nobody wants to do, gain social mobility and then move out of apartment buildings to buy houses. Then the next wave move in.
Gentrification is a whole other ballgame, where you've got people living hand to mouth being priced out of their neighborhoods and having their businesses shut down because of cultural vampires from out of town who selfishly drive up rents (by making micro apartments fashionable) and get local businesses shut down for chain stores.
But ah, what's the point? You don't give a shit about any of all this, do you? You're not experiencing any of this directly, so I just expect you to keep lobbing smug comments that don't take into account how people in Chinatown, SoHo, Sunset Park and now Greenwich Village are freaking out because they're being pushed out in favor of luxury towers.
And you avoided the rest b/c you have no answer to his lack of basic decency.
I don't condone any behavior. I just responded to your flippant comments about that video. There's a lot of tension right now reminiscent of what happened in Alphabet City back in the 1980s and 1990s. These guys are wrong for flipping eggs at people but by the same token, it's being very flippant to dismiss the underlying problems that's now getting people angry enough to do that. Simply writing them off is as naive as Yuppies back in the 1980s dismissing all the angry homeless people as "bums" and then wondering why they were suddenly rioting in Tompkins Square Park.
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dmac8 (5050)
5 years ago
Oh, he's a wrongdoer now? That's quite a shift since you didn't say one bad thing about what he did in two replies -- until I pointed out the absence, that is. Yet "stupid ass" and other insults when describing those others, who you can barely see at the bottom of the stairs, came flying out immediately?! But it's ok -- b/c we all know they're hypocrite "hipsters" who are moving in next week and bringing Starbucks with them the week after that. But in reality, you know nothing about them. And he doesn't know a thing except that they don't look like other people from the area. You fill the guy throwing eggs with context to excuse his anger and elevate it to "teaching" -- but you affix lazy and dismissive labels complete with insults to three silhouettes at the bottom of those stairs. Typical. Only one party was actually doing something wrong in that video. We saw what he did. We heard what he said. He put it on display so we can judge it. It's you who read life stories into those other individuals based on nothing. Only one party left those stairs in worse shape -- but I'm sure he cleaned up that egg mess later -- out of neighborhood pride, right? Yeah, right. No mention of that "trash", huh? It's only hipster mess that irks you.
Just imagine what a friendly interaction might've done. But you can't b/c you'd be snarling and spitting venom right alongside him. That's why it never ends. Contrast the memory those people might've had with a positive interaction. It might've been "Oh, it's not so bad there." instead of "Yeah, that place is awful. We were just taking a pic for 2 seconds when some guy started throwing things at us." And you wonder why they don't visit? That stupid ass reminded them. Gotta make sure the shittiness stays intact. Why would he want any of them to think differently? Brilliant.
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