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Don’t forget the weird Brooklyn “Blood and Soil” of only welcoming natives

• mancerayder 4y ago
  That's really common in NYC. There's this word that's used, community, to create in and out groups based on arbitrary periods of time. For example, the last 30 years, anyone after that is a sort of foreigner moving in. You see this in anything from Yelp reviews to activist commentary. The city predates the United States, and has had waves upon waves of many different types of people moving in and out of it. And every time there's this dangerous word, community, used to try to ossify neighborhoods into belonging to one group or another.