My favorite MM comment section hater sends us a tip about a merchant’s holiday party happening this Friday, featuring slashed prices and drink specials. No word if there will be free refreshments or bands/DJs this year (they had ‘em last year), so you better brown bag it and pack your ipod with a smooth combination of Ratatat, The Knocks and Da Brat just in case.
I couldn’t find any official information about this year’s party, and the organizers have not updated their website since February, but here is last year’s invite.
He adds:
“Make sure the naive hipster fucks stay home for this, none of the merchants would want to offend them in the case that the stores are too refined for their palates.”
Zing!
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(adjusting the jester’s cap)
So…
“Yuppies” are perceived as unwanted in the Mission.
“Hipsters” (we could spend all day picking apart the definition of a word that most of us resemble yet use as a derogatory insult to each other) are perceived as being unwanted in the Mission.
One can glean that ‘immigrants’, ‘people with non-white skin’ and ‘people of limited economic means’ are considered to be the proper denizens of the neighborhood…
So…
Should everyone else pack up and go home? Will that cause the City to suddenly create a better infrastructure for the current/longterm residents?
If that *won’t* help the situation in the longterm, and would just continue a trend of ‘ghettoization’, then what is the best way to leverage the colonizing energy for the greatest good? The model of the Han Chinese flooding Tibet is a bit scary, but that often seems to happen by default as well as by plan -
A lot of commentators hint at ‘saving’ the ‘neighborhood’, but I don’t know that there is a common set of definitions for either the structure/pros/cons/benefits/deficiencies of our neighborhood nor for the mechanisms that could/should be invoked to ‘save’ it from change.
- Mike
Popeye’s for everyone!
I feel like we’re having the same conversation in every post.
I’m not complaining, I just think it’s interesting.
I’m hoping that this gets an airing out in a separate thread soon… when multiple threads all converge on a particular topic, methinks we have something to talk about
Fair enough, but what’s the topic? I’m hoping it’s not you-know-what-sters.
Almost, but the reason for your chagrin is likely part of the reason that the problem exists -
I feel like the definitions of terms are controlling these conversations much more than the actual content – ‘hipsters’ is making me hear my father’s generation say ‘terr’ists’ to describe pretty much anyone who lives within a certain swath of geography – the broad-brush tarring is also used with that lovely term ‘yuppie’, and both terms seem to have such a wide range of definitions that they can be interchangeably used on many groups of people – the devil is in the details, which is the connotations – and this devil can cause many a tempest-in-a-teapot -
Once we remove all of the static from the debate(s), one shiny question seems to remain:
“Who belongs here?”
- Mike
All you paste-eating naive hipster fucks should take off. And keep your block parties back in that midwestern dump you escaped from. Viva la raza.
What’s wrong, sweetie? Welfare office say “NO” again?
andale, andale, Jose I’ll go back to Redwood City if you go back to Razalandia guey.
Let’s just give the neighborhood back to Italians like in the fifties… no wait, lets give it back to the Irish like in the thirties… no, wait lets just give the fuckin hood back to the King of Spain, his people found it anyway.
Gallant says “Wherever I happen to be, I try to make that place better.”
Goofus says…
Jose, grumpy from no siesta?
amazing.
party ..party..party..and party again…