I'm happy other people feel differently in other areas, but any SF YIMBY who wants to change that dynamic here will have to do a lot of work, build a lot of trust, and undo a lot of damage.
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Replying to @uhshanti @yimbywiki and
That sounds like an inspiring challenge to be taken up by both sides.
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Replying to @bufordsharkley @yimbywiki and
I am not interested in "both sidesing" anything. we are trying to do the work to support these communities. THEY are the core of housing justice, not DSA *OR* YIMBY, & making friends w/ ppl who marginalize their needs and insult them in policy & rhetoric is not our responsibility
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Replying to @uhshanti @bufordsharkley and
I'm happy to have nice constructive dialogue online and even over a beer sometime. I don't want to be mean. and while online exacerbates things badly, our core organizing principles in the Bay Area are at odds for a reason, not a tragic accident.
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Replying to @uhshanti @bufordsharkley and
what started this thread? people got upset that I had the gall to suggest that maybe we should have class and race-affirmative planning instead of simply developing mostly at the level of engineers. the fact that I got *this* much guff for even suggesting that IMO says it all
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Replying to @uhshanti @bufordsharkley and
I think the first time I ever called out BARF on Twitter was b/c they said orgs were "bussing in" "swarms" of low-inc tenants of color, a dehumanizing assertion that denied people their agency. as you know, an interesting incident happened yesterday. AFAICS, nothing has changed.
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Replying to @uhshanti @bufordsharkley and
we have ex-YIMBYs in our chapter because they realized that something about that didn't work for them.
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Replying to @uhshanti @bufordsharkley and
by the same token, people who founded YIMBY like
@hanlonbt are ppl who started seeking answers in tenant orgs but realized that the tenant orgs were solely about keeping people in place (**which is impt**) didn’t have a vision for future generations, welcoming immigrants1 reply 2 retweets 15 likes -
Replying to @kimmaicutler @uhshanti and
exactly. Also, YIMBY groups & discussions seem to have a lot of people alienated from DSA by this type of scornful, uncompomising antagonism.
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Replying to @housing_wiki @yimbywiki and
I've talked to a few YIMBYs who actually know how to build trust with communities and push for radical change, by the way. it just so happens that not a single one of them lives in California.
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I think the underlying structural dynamics are different. In Seattle, there is no rent control and no Prop. 13 so the alliances and incentives are fundamentally different.
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