Comments on: Mission Holiday Block Party

By: vajj

vajj — Fri, 11 Dec 2009 01:32:41 +0000

amazing.

By: Mike

Mike — Wed, 09 Dec 2009 22:17:11 +0000

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

By: dolorespark

dolorespark — Wed, 09 Dec 2009 22:07:56 +0000

Gallant says “Wherever I happen to be, I try to make that place better.”

Goofus says…

By: Bob-O

Bob-O — Wed, 09 Dec 2009 21:53:05 +0000

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.

By: Phuket Hotels

Phuket Hotels — Wed, 09 Dec 2009 05:22:12 +0000

party ..party..party..and party again…

By: PaddyW

PaddyW — Wed, 09 Dec 2009 02:02:58 +0000

What’s wrong, sweetie? Welfare office say “NO” again?

By: doucheface

doucheface — Wed, 09 Dec 2009 00:10:27 +0000

Jose, grumpy from no siesta?

By: Jose

Jose — Tue, 08 Dec 2009 23:47:49 +0000

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.

By: Ariel Dovas

Ariel Dovas — Tue, 08 Dec 2009 19:24:27 +0000

Fair enough, but what’s the topic? I’m hoping it’s not you-know-what-sters.

By: Mike

Mike — Tue, 08 Dec 2009 19:14:22 +0000

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

By: Ariel Dovas

Ariel Dovas — Tue, 08 Dec 2009 18:56:51 +0000

I feel like we’re having the same conversation in every post.

I’m not complaining, I just think it’s interesting.

By: Brock Keeling

Brock Keeling — Tue, 08 Dec 2009 17:59:40 +0000

Popeye’s for everyone!

By: Mike

Mike — Tue, 08 Dec 2009 16:49:48 +0000

(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