Queer-owned business shut down by employees for not being woke enough. No matter how much of an “ally” you are, you will never be safe from becoming just another trophy head on the wall of wokeism.

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[–]IMissPorn 3 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 0 fun4 insightful - 1 fun -  (2 children)

I can see both sides. On the one hand, in a big picture sense renovating run down buildings and such is great, but on the other hand, I can empathize with people being upset when their rent goes way up to make way for stupid things like queer-owned coffee shops.

[–]Canbot 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

Wealthy people can buy top end properties and build whatever they want. Buying run down cheap places in bad neighborhoods is the only option for poor people to make something of themselves. Gentrification propaganda is essentially an attack on lower class people challenging the elites.

Feeling bad for people who's rent goes up does not justify participating in that.

And it really is just propaganda anyway because literally no one has shown that this coffee shop caused anyone's rent to go up; it is just a baseless claim that goes unchallenged. Just because improvements to the neighborhood can cause that does not mean this shop did that, nor does it mean you can make unsubstantiated claims.

[–]IMissPorn 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Wealthy people can buy top end properties and build whatever they want. Buying run down cheap places in bad neighborhoods is the only option for poor people to make something of themselves.

That's an interesting way to look at it. I suppose there's some truth to it, but I do wonder what share of start-ups in these neighborhoods are really poor people trying to get ahead, vs. people who are already well off and just looking for a bargain.