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> To me, they are an invading army culturally speaking. In a very real sense my home is being destroyed. This is xenophobia in another skin. There are a lot of
by beering 10y ago
> To me, they are an invading army culturally speaking. In a very real sense my home is being destroyed.
This is xenophobia in another skin. There are a lot of people who don't want brown people coming into the country and changing the "feel" of their home too.
Anyways, as long as we severely restrict housing, techies will continue to outbid the locals on what remains. Passing this legislation might give the weirdo-freaks a chance to remain in the city.
- HillaryBriss 10y agoXenophobia is defined (by one source) as "intense or irrational dislike or fear of people from other countries." Maybe comparing this commenter to "a lot of people who don't want brown people" is ham fisted and inaccurate. The commenter seems more interested in the culture, the freakiness or weirdness, of the people who come in, and not so much which country they came from. I do not see where the commenter mentioned race or skin color.
- paulddraper 10y agoIt's a fine line.
- HillaryBriss 10y agoI'll bite: Is it ever ok for a person to argue against policies that increase population in the city where they reside? If so, what are some ethical reasons for resisting and/or advocating against population growth in a city?
- HemanHeartYou 10y agoYes, to keep normies from diluting my freak culture.
- morgante 10y ago> The commenter seems more interested in the culture, the freakiness or weirdness, of the people who come in, and not so much which country they came from Go to a Trump rally and ask if they actually hate minorities for the color of the skin. They'll say no. Xenophobes and racists always insist it's about "culture" and an invading army which is somehow destroying that "culture" and ruining their way of life with an outside culture. I fail to see how this attitude is acceptable when it comes from privileged urban hippies, but unacceptable when it comes from poor rural workers.
- HillaryBriss 10y agoThere are plenty of xenophobes and racists who actually do insist that they're concerned about race itself. Anyway, it seems that what you want to establish is not that xenophobes and racists "insist it's about culture", but that anyone who "insists it's about culture" is a xenophobe or racist.
- morgante 10y ago> Anyway, it seems that what you want to establish is not that xenophobes and racists "insist it's about culture", but that anyone who "insists it's about culture" is a xenophobe or racist. Yes, I do think that everyone who insists that culture is a valid reason for opposing the ability of people to migrate into their area is an xenophobe.
- uola 10y agoAs an outsider I have a hard time seeing how the people living in and the people wanting to live in the bay area are of different cultures for any meaningful sense of the world. This is largely a political issue over priorities and not a fear of the unknown.
- HillaryBriss 10y agoI guess you use "xenophobic" more broadly than I do. For example, if a large influx of patriotic, Budweiser-drinking gun-owners from Texas occurred in Berkeley and a long-time Berkeley resident complained about it because they didn't want a "culture of watery-beer, flag-waving gun ownership" to expand in their neighborhood, I would not call that xenophobic. But it seems like you would. Or, maybe you wouldn't. Can you clarify this a bit more?