Comments on: Sleepover in Dolores Park tonight

By: Kenny Chesney Songs

Kenny Chesney Songs — Sun, 03 Nov 2013 03:32:37 +0000

I would go to this

By: Treeman

Treeman — Thu, 31 Oct 2013 19:54:33 +0000

This is BS, to fear the night you were probably born incredibly white. This is always on the agenda. Anyone remember the Matrix Program? Loads of good that did.

“If you’re in a park at 3 a.m., you’re looking for trouble, either because you yourself are trying to cause the trouble or because you’re too stupid/reckless to realize that you could be victimized.”

Way to live in fear ‘blah’.

By: huh?

huh? — Tue, 29 Oct 2013 16:35:00 +0000

SF hasn’t been “welcoming and open to all” since late 2006.

By: Robin

Robin — Tue, 29 Oct 2013 16:28:13 +0000

I don’t really think this is another “attack on the homeless, queer, etc.etc…” I see it as more of a fight against people that feel entitled to use SF’s public spaces as their trashcan/bathroom.

By: heyballsack

heyballsack — Tue, 29 Oct 2013 14:09:37 +0000

New San Francisco wants those parks closed. Better close ‘em up

By: MisterHyde

MisterHyde — Tue, 29 Oct 2013 03:41:01 +0000

Can’t go for a walk at night without bypassing the park after midnight?

Please.

By: newtopian

newtopian — Mon, 28 Oct 2013 23:57:32 +0000

you’re jumping to a lot of conclusions

By: Anarchist in $300 Jeans

Anarchist in $300 Jeans — Mon, 28 Oct 2013 22:16:03 +0000

Time is Theft

By: rfm

rfm — Mon, 28 Oct 2013 19:49:37 +0000

*Nobody* goes for walks late at night? I guess I’m nobody.

By: troll

troll — Mon, 28 Oct 2013 19:38:24 +0000

Hahaha. Blah utilizes Foucaldian and now thinks they’re intelligent. Ah, Mondays; despair to many, but bringing hope to some!

By: JohnnyL

JohnnyL — Mon, 28 Oct 2013 19:17:34 +0000

This. Spot on, blah!

By: blah

blah — Mon, 28 Oct 2013 19:09:17 +0000

Having parks close at night is not an attack on “the homeless, on queer people, poor people, and people of color.”

If you’re in a park at 3 a.m., you’re looking for trouble, either because you yourself are trying to cause the trouble or because you’re too stupid/reckless to realize that you could be victimized. Nobody is engaging in “recreation, sport, entertainment, and leisure” at that time of night, and it’s just goofy and naive to suggest otherwise.

Incidentally, love the Foucauldian reference to “polic[ing] bodies” in the press release. Obviously somebody has been to enough graduate seminars that s/he has learned how to write about commonplace things in a way that is obscure and confusing.

(Cue the response from Hazbeen, who will now lecture me on urban history and park zoning regulations as a tool of white capitalist patriarchal hegemony and neoliberal privatization movements.)