Know what I’m sick of lately? Activist types showing up here, getting all up in our faces about our part in advancing gentrification — or at least that we don’t weep enough about gentrification. The worst part is that for all their many hundreds of words on the subject, they can never seem to get any real ideas across. They’re infected by vapidity and are crammed full, top to bottom, with empty rhetoric. It’s hard to even look sometimes.

I had actually been somewhat avoiding the subject of gentrification, mainly because whether we debate it or not, it’s inexorable, a given. I didn’t see the point. What little bits I let slip as I otherwise walked on eggshells here brought me nothing but whining and hate posts. So you know what? Fuck it. I’m putting down the shield I use to bounce weak anti-gentrification spitballs back at their launchers and pulling out my bazooka — and I’m taking no prisoners.

Take, for example, poor Katie. She’s a volunteer at Make the Road by Walking, every Bushwicker’s favorite two-million-dollar-a-year protest organization. She’s a freshly-minted college liberal on a mission to “combat inequality in all its incarnations.” Aw. But it seems after Round One, she’s been KO’d. What a disappointment.

She’s bitten off more than she can chew, but instead of fighting the good fight, she retreats to the safe confines of her MySpace account to get pats on the head from her yes-man friends. “I’m not articulate enough!” “Aw, sure you are! ur like, super-articulate!” Witness:

gentrification (part 1)

this whole conversation makes me angry

especially since i can’t seem to articulate or defend my ideas even after 4 years of college with 4 years of “identifying underlining assumptions”. i hate feeling weak against stupid right-wing bloggers. ludicrous! i shouldn’t care, but i do and i don’t understand how other people can be so apathetic.

Four years of college, sure, but don’t forget those many tens of thousands of dollars in student loan debt! All that, and she can’t even hit back after ONE response to her comment. I just blew on her and she collapsed into a whimpering heap.

I’ll continue here what I started in the offending post — zeroing in on nonsense statements whose intent is to muddy the clear waters of debate, and blowing them up.

The “stupid right-wingers” comment sticks out prominently to those whom I have shown the post. The response from each has been “…right-wing?” There’s not a single word in this entire post that could be reasonably construed as right-wing — unless the intent is to smear, and thereby discredit, anyone in any disagreement whatsoever with Katie. She must have majored in the Sean Hannity school of debate — anyone who doesn’t want to suck the president’s dick is a terrorist; anyone who disagrees with Katie wants to have Hitler’s babies. In fact, I’m surprised she didn’t employ the most over- and misused word in the college-liberal vocabulary: fascist.

Really, if you can’t even get some simple ideas across after four years of, *cough*, “identifying underlining [sic] assumptions,” who exactly is the “stupid” one here, sweetheart?

“Apathy” is another liberal favorite. If you don’t vote, for example, you’re “apathetic” — instead of someone who simply realizes that since voting changes nothing, time isn’t worth wasting at the voting booth. In this case, however, since I don’t share her views and spend my time caring about the things she cares about, I’m “apathetic.” See how that works? Rocks as a rhetorical device against the dumb. Flops against those who pay attention.

But wait, don’t think Katie is all mad love for Bushwick: her “FUCK YOU BUSHWICK!” post is a must-read — one can’t help but feel bad for someone whose bike AND car were both chopped on the same day. Although, as every good liberal knows, cars are evil. Maybe Bushwick did her a favor.

I might regret having been so mean in the morning (it’s almost 2am). But there’s nothing like being called a stupid right-winger to snap one out of one’s apathy!

(PS: I don’t have any student loan debt. Know why? Because I never went to college! *maniacal laugh*)

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