I find the term "NIMBY" to be an offensive low-effort pejorative. It's a way of using a label to dismiss ideas and policies people have good, legitimate reasons

I find the term "NIMBY" to be an offensive low-effort pejorative. It's a way of using a label to dismiss ideas and policies people have good, legitimate reasons to support. The article opens with a broad caricature of "Right-NIMBYs", which is completely farcical and made in bad faith: > We’re all familiar by now with Right-NIMBYs — conservatives who block transit and housing development in order to keep poor people and minorities out of their quiet white-flight suburban neighborhoods. People have reasons to block housing development that don't have anything to do with poor people or minorities. To ascribe this intention as the primary motivation is ridiculous, and completely self-serving. In reality, the main reason for most people to block development is simply that they enjoy their present neighborhood character, lifestyle, sense of space/openness, access to amenities that are not over-subscribed, etc.