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> Using dubious emotional arguments like laundromats can't be historic buildings? Ironically, the state preventing people from demolishing irrelevant structure
by dionidium 4y ago
> Using dubious emotional arguments like laundromats can't be historic buildings?
Ironically, the state preventing people from demolishing irrelevant structures to build housing that will exist entirely on their own private property is actual Fascism. I suspect it's a Fascism you're sympathetic to, but it's much more literally Fascism than the alternative.
- ZeroGravitas 4y agoBut the state didn't do that. He's just misrepresenting it > The building’s sardonic “historic laundromat” nickname stems from a 2018 study the city conducted to determine whether the property should be preserved as a historic asset. > The concern at the time was not that the building itself might have historic value, but that as the building’s onetime offices of certain local activist and nonprofit groups it might be worth preserving. > This did not turn out to be the case, and the contemptuous shorthand term has stuck with the building ever since.
- dionidium 4y agoThis explanation does not assuage my feelings of contempt for this process, which I hold to be completely illegitimate and unconstitutional.