Thursday, February 4, 2021

Things Are Heating Up Again at My Video on Gentrification

I put a gentrification video up over three years ago and it still gets "logical, analytical" comments: 

The latest comments:

MrAntiSellOut

7 hours ago

The idiot in this video and those who favor gentrification would've gotten their silly ass chased out of one of the ghetto neighborhoods if they had tried gentrifying them during the 70s and 80s

Generation Xer

8 hours ago

This clown Robert Weasel doesn't even know wtf he is talking about

sexy blonde

4 days ago

Gentrification is DANGEROUS . You end up with more cities like NYC , SF ,WASHINGTON where rent is sky high!

Steven James

1 week ago

Making cities too expensive for average people to live in is always a bad thing. Gentrification is a way for assholes like this guy to move poor people out. Stay in the suburbs and shut the fuck up.

Here is the video for those of you who haven't seen it: 

 

 -RW

4 comments:

  1. Less 'duh-versity' is always a good thing, especially of the ghetto trash variety.

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  2. "The idiot in this video and those who favor gentrification would've gotten their silly ass chased out of one of the ghetto neighborhoods if they had tried gentrifying them during the 70s and 80s"

    But does this work in reverse? You see, I grew up in a neighborhood that went reverse gentrification in Chicago in the 1980's, in part I think due to the crack/cocaine surge. There may have been other factors. It was a mostly German and Polish area with low crime. By the time we moved out in 1988, it was overrun wtih gangs, was predominately Latino, and we were perhaps the last white family on the block.

    Why didn't we "chase" out the reverse gentrifyers? They destroyed the value of our homes and made the area unsafe to live. Is that preferable to having wealthy people move into an area and improve it?

    Or should everything just stay exactly the way it is forever? I think those who oppose changing neighborhood dynamics cling too much.

    David B.

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  3. "Gentrification is DANGEROUS . You end up with more cities like NYC , SF ,WASHINGTON where rent is sky high!"

    But doesn't that make the suburbs around those cities less expensive than they otherwise would have been? Assuming of course that those moving into those city neighborhoods are doing so because they are now more attractive than suburban living - which seems to be the pattern - this movement of wealth into the cities should result in prices of suburban homes or renting in suburban apartments cheaper.

    And isn't that a good thing for some? Don't some city dwellers on the lower socioeconomic scale claim that is exactly what they want?

    David B.

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  4. I confess I haven't yet watched RW's video, but the animosity against gentrification has always amazed me. Only in the West would the objective economic improvement of a city be considered deleterious. Commenter "The Contractor" above makes a good point, and gentrification critics should be asked, "if gentrification is a bad thing, then is reverse gentrification a good thing? If not, why not?"

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