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
and after well over a year of being denigrated as a NIMBY patsy both personally and in a group (now in online magazine debates!), I have 0 confidence that CA YIMBY will *ever* develop any real understanding of the concerns of working class POC. because they don't want to.
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Replying to @uhshanti @bufordsharkley and
better to call them patsies to white homeowners, bussed in by Peskin, myopic little people who don't know what's good for them, throw the kitchen sink. better to tell the people who want to work with them they are patsies, trust fund kids, put their parents' info on Twitter.
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Replying to @uhshanti @bufordsharkley and
this has been happening since the moment Sonja Trauss logged onto Twitter for the first time. it hasn't gotten better, and it won't.
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Replying to @uhshanti @yimbywiki and
I'm looking forward to when we can finally tally up whose grievances are worse, and determine which side has won
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Replying to @bufordsharkley @yimbywiki and
there's a difference when one of you is punching down
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I totally agree with you there. I personally don’t go to Mission meetings or anything like that. I prefer to spend my actual physical energy on burbs.
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Replying to @kimmaicutler @uhshanti and
I actually agree with your general critique. The YIMBY coalition will not be successful unless it is broad-based: inclusive of old people, young people, poor people, rich people, white people, and PoC.
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Replying to @zack @kimmaicutler and
We're not yet expert at coalition building, but I do have confidence we will learn fast. A year ago YIMBY was barely a word, and this time next year YIMBY will be much bigger, and considerably wiser.
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