Left-Wing Professor Doesn’t Want Poor People In His Posh Neighborhood

[rayg]

Left-Wing UC Berkeley Professor Doesn’t Want Poor People Moving Into His Posh Neighborhood

Rich white liberals have long invoked similar rhetoric to exempt their own posh neighborhoods from policies they claim to support.

Wealthy residents of San Francisco's Embarcadero neighborhood, for example, presumably have no objection to building affordable housing in Berkeley, But many of them furiously opposed the city government's proposal to build a 200-bed homeless shelter in their own backyard

And is one of the more striking examples of the rank hypocrisy of rich white liberals, particularly in the state of California, whose expressed concern for affordable housing, income inequality, and social justice disappears the minute their own property values and exclusive neighborhoods are targeted for corrective action.

https://freebeacon.com/satire/robert-reich-nimby/

MORE: ...Rich Liberals in Nancy Pelosi’s District Launch GoFundMe to Stop Homeless Shelter

https://freebeacon.com/blog/san-francisco-homeless-gofundme/

[togor]

It's true. In Minneapolis they use ordinances that control housing density. In European cities, they cram the poor, the immigrants, into concrete hi-rises on the periphery of town, near industrial sites, or the airport.

This is something that needs a reckoning, and it isn't going to be easy. Clearly the racist haters don't have a solution either.

[SUPERX-M1]

Well, the elites may be hypocrites, but aren't we all? We all have our red lines when it comes to property values, perceived threats, perceived dangers and a host of issues.

Edit: Good comments below this post. Read on.

[rayg]

Well, the elites may be hypocrites, but aren't we all? We all have our red lines when it comes to property values, perceived threats, perceived dangers and a host of issues.

Not necessarily just Preceived ..

[Vern Humphrey]

Well, the elites may be hypocrites, but aren't we all? We all have our red lines when it comes to property values, perceived threats, perceived dangers and a host of issues.

The point is, if YOU do it, they call you a racist. If THEY do it, it's "preserving the charm of the neighborhood."

Look at Bernie Sanders -- forever railing against "millionaires and billionaires." And, whoops! he's a millionaire! If you should be fortunate enough to make a million, you benefitted from "White Privilege." But he deserves his millions, and he's keeping them!!

[blackhawknj]

So how many left wing liberals reside in public housing ? Send their kids to public schools. Nothing new, the top echelons of the "Workers and Peasants" states of East Europe all resided in carefully walled off-and guarded compounds, shopped in restricted stores-or had things delivered. One young Russian who got to visit the apartment of longtime Party Boss Mikoyan noted all the appliances were West German.
Having a "red line" does not make you a hypocrite, doing something that contradicts your publicly stated beliefs does.

[rayg]

Thumbs up on that post...

[Vern Humphrey]

To share your money, the liberal is willing
He'll tax your penny and keep his shilling.

[blackhawknj]

Actually, there's a true Socialist solution to the problem of homelessness, drug use, mental problems, etc. It's called Camp for Reeducation through Labor No. 7. We need something like the White Sea Canal. Those who worked on it were hailed as "Canal Army men", they even had a brand of cigarettes, "Belomor", from the Russian abbreviation for White Sea.

[M1Tommy]

Of course as, "Some are more equal than others."!

Tommy

[dryheat]

Actually, there's a true Socialist solution to the problem of homelessness, drug use, mental problems, etc. It's called Camp for Reeducation through Labor No. 7. We need something like the White Sea Canal. Those who worked on it were hailed as "Canal Army men", they even had a brand of cigarettes, "Belomor", from the Russian abbreviation for White Sea.

It's socialist for sure, but maybe not all that crazy.

[Vern Humphrey]

Now, where do WE need a canal?

[clintonhater]

In European cities, they cram the poor, the immigrants, into concrete hi-rises on the periphery of town, near industrial sites, or the airport.

How strange that people who work for their living, obey the laws, don't create social problems for others, should want to isolate themselves from their society's criminals & parasites.

[Vern Humphrey]

How strange that people who work for their living, obey the laws, don't create social problems for others, should want to isolate themselves from their society's criminals & parasites.

How is what the Europeans do any different from what we do -- anyone remember Cabrini Green?

[blackhawknj]

Ah, yes, Cabrini-Green. The first Mayor Daley was probably the nation's arch segregationist, but because he did it quietly without a lot of rabble rousing and inflammatory rhetoric, he has escaped censure,