Some tech/engineer personalities may be socially awkward but almost ALL of us would become threatened if physically confronted by a larger group of people acting very territorial and all while being filmed without permission. The guys wearing Dropbox shirts were obviously embarrassed, flustered and frustrated because they had done what they thought everyone else had to do.

I don’t for a second believe these guys were looking for trouble, rather, they were trying to be team players and avoid conflict by doing what they thought everyone else had done to be able to play there.

So these guys, who followed the posted rules of conduct, reserved the field in the spirit of fairness and contribution not only paid to reserve their time on the field but paid the price of being shunned and chastised by a group of people who refused to play by the rules not very sportsmanly.. Not very civil.

http://www.sfexaminer.com/sanfrancisco/mission-teen-alleges-injury-from-airbnb-employee-in-aftermath-of-video/Content?oid=2909482

Corporation teeshirt, stupid bloody Tuesday
Man you been a naughty boy. You let your face grow long

FIRST: “This piece of paper is your shield, Ned Stark?” lol.

ALSO: at various points, I’ve sipped of the sweet elixir of Privilege (strongly of pomegranate) and I’ve been force-fed its bitter rinds (buttered popcorn jellybelly), and I have to say that, when Privilege Happens, my favorite flavor is the one where people of a certain background have rules written entirely for their benefit and then attempt to capitalize at the expense of others, only to come face to face with otherwise uncapitalized people, not easily bullied by pieces of paper, at which point that first group starts blubbering incoherently about the rules they totally made up: delicious every time.

AND: no, the fact these particular bros didn’t come up with this particular rule doesn’t matter. When you profit from unfair or unjust rules, ordinances, laws, amendments, charters, pinky-swears, or other codifications of power that intentionally dispossess others, you are in fact participating in a system of oppression. That’s what makes it a system.

THEN: savor this video, kids, after this there’s a lot more paper, a lot more privilege, a lot more money, and a lot of people coming to town who say that your family never lived in a neighborhood, you didn’t grow up in a neighborhood, and that you’re mistaken when you say “This is our neighborhood” because all you’re doing is squatting itinerantly on desirable real estate that is, for some reason, near lots of good Mexican food. This is a selling point. The Mexican food, I mean, not any of you. Not even the ones who aren’t particularly Mexican.

PLUS: if one of these bros had not streamed a couple quarters of a Worldcup League sockerball wicket on his AndroidPad over the summer, this argument never happens.

Well, not this one specifically anyway.