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[chasematt]

Derek Brahney

[voluptama]

falling in love

© Derek Brahney

[chasematt]

[voluptama]

true, but useless

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[chasematt]

[thespearhead]

Is Being 'Unapologetic' the New Patriotic - or a Form of Resistance?

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Online or in Politics, ‘Backlash’ Is as Predictable as Weather Author: CAMERON TUNG / Source: New York Times Photo illustration by Derek Brahney Is it possible that anger qualifies, at this point, as a national pastime?

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"..we’ve adopted a novel word meaning “one who gentrifies” — the active colonist, someone who tries on neighborhoods like shirts at a thrift shop. This turns gentrification into a lifestyle choice. Hence the scores of listicles that have cropped up on websites that cater to well-meaning millennials, working either to steer the budding gentrifier in a noble direction (Thought Catalog’s “10 Rules for Being a Good Gentrifier From an Urban Planner in Brooklyn”) or to suggest that she might avoid the epithet while still participating in the process (AlterNet’s “20 Ways Not to Be a Gentrifier”). Invariably these articles suggest shopping locally, talking to your neighbors and, above all, being self-aware about your impact. Befriending your bodega guy is a great thing to do, but it’s of limited assistance when the landlord triples his rent. ---- "If the logic of conscious consumerism has come to infect what we mean by “gentrification,” perhaps it’s because the process always begins with people who are expected to know better: the “creative class.” In a 1979 book called “Neighborhood Renewal,” the urban theorist Phillip L. Clay outlined four stages of gentrification: In the first, “pioneers” — often bohemians and artists — move to dilapidated or abandoned areas in search of cheaper rents; in the second, the middle classes follow; in the third, their numbers displace the original population; and in the final stage, the neighborhood is fully turned over to banks, developers and the wealthy. By this point, the artists are being priced out to another subway stop or another city — where they will be greeted as though they’ve come seeking adventure." "“The fifth and last phase of gentrification,” he writes, “is when neighborhoods aren’t just more friendly to capital than to people but cease being places to live a normal life.”"

When ‘Gentrification’ Isn’t About Housing by Derek Brahney for The New York Times (Jan 2018)