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In my experience the same people who are clueless about gentrification and make jawdropping comments are the same folks who ignore or decry PC.

seattle_spring 7y ago
I see a lot of tech workers demonized for gentrifying neighborhoods in NYC, Chicago, Bay Area and Seattle, among other places. In my personal experience though, those people are buying the places they can afford as close to their work as possible. It's not that they're choose to displace people, it's that they're doing the best they can. They can't stay where they're from because there aren't actually good jobs for them there. What would you suggest the alternative to be?
- kajecounterhack 7y ago
  I think it's more about attitudes, like if you're cracking jokes about being a gentrifier as if it doesn't negatively affect other peoples' lives, then that's not good. The other part is voting -- gentrifiers tend to vote for their own interests and may overlook or vote against efforts the people they're outclassing care about e.g affordable housing.
- eli_gottlieb 7y ago
  The alternative is the rising YIMBY movement. When population increases, the housing supply should increase to compensate.
dqv 7y ago
I think it's unfair to make this association. It is both possible to be cognizant of gentrification and make valid critiques of political correctness. It turns out that most people in the US decry PC[1]: > 83 percent of respondents who make less than $50,000 dislike political correctness There is a burgeoning movement on the left to be more lax about political correctness because the academic dialect (pedantry) required repels a lot of well-meaning people. [1]: https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2018/10/large-majorities-dislike-political-correctness/572581/ https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2018/10/large-majo... Link to the study cited in [1]: https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5a70a7c3010027736a22740f/t/5bbcea6b7817f7bf7342b718/1539107467397/hidden_tribes_report-2.pdf https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5a70a7c3010027736a227...

seattle_spring 7y ago

I see a lot of tech workers demonized for gentrifying neighborhoods in NYC, Chicago, Bay Area and Seattle, among other places. In my personal experience though, those people are buying the places they can afford as close to their work as possible. It's not that they're choose to displace people, it's that they're doing the best they can. They can't stay where they're from because there aren't actually good jobs for them there. What would you suggest the alternative to be?

kajecounterhack 7y ago
I think it's more about attitudes, like if you're cracking jokes about being a gentrifier as if it doesn't negatively affect other peoples' lives, then that's not good. The other part is voting -- gentrifiers tend to vote for their own interests and may overlook or vote against efforts the people they're outclassing care about e.g affordable housing.
eli_gottlieb 7y ago
The alternative is the rising YIMBY movement. When population increases, the housing supply should increase to compensate.

dqv 7y ago

I think it's unfair to make this association. It is both possible to be cognizant of gentrification and make valid critiques of political correctness. It turns out that most people in the US decry PC[1]: > 83 percent of respondents who make less than $50,000 dislike political correctness There is a burgeoning movement on the left to be more lax about political correctness because the academic dialect (pedantry) required repels a lot of well-meaning people. [1]: https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2018/10/large-majorities-dislike-political-correctness/572581/ https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2018/10/large-majo... Link to the study cited in [1]: https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5a70a7c3010027736a22740f/t/5bbcea6b7817f7bf7342b718/1539107467397/hidden_tribes_report-2.pdf https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5a70a7c3010027736a227...