It’s as dishonest to imply that this is all she meant as it is to claim there is no classism in this statement at all.https://twitter.com/heerjeet/status/973586828337954816 …
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I do think that the march of the ethnically diverse Brooklyn(esque) gentrifiers—a group of which I am a once and future member, I freely confess—has gotten upscale whites a little too impressed with themselves tho.
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They think they’re “dynamic” bc their tech startup is 30% minorities and 10% queer ppl. But all of the people at the startup were born into high-income families and/or passed through a privilege-factory PWI.
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But on the other hand, if you ask me if I’d rather be black and queer in the land of the “dynamic” Brooklynites or the “left behind” small town whites? Well. Sundown towns are very much still a thing, so...
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(And all that high income/PWI shit does you precisely 0 good in some of these places. The old “college ID trick” isn’t gonna cut it, lol.)
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