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- when po' folks have books, magazines etc collected, they're called pack rats, obsessive compulsive, queer
- when the middle class and up have the same stuff and it's leather bound, it's called a library
- when the poor speak up and ask for a fair share or defend their neighborhood, lives, health etc, they're whiny, complaining, welfare seekers
- when everyone else does it, they're assertive, politically astute
- if a European hyped up to be an "artist" splashes paint on a wall of your neighborhood, it's public art
- if an inner city teen does it, he/she is a gang banger and it's an eyesore, urban blight
- if you're drinking one can of beer on your way home on the subway after a long day on the job, you're a criminal in opposition to the "broken windows'" anti crime policy
- if you're an alcoholic on the suburban trains drinking beer that they sell you AT THE TRAINS, and you're going home to, say, beat your family, you're still probably seen as hardworking, dedicated family man
The hypocrisy of the beer thing on the trains/subway is criminal. It makes my blood boil.
ReplyDeleteas i said im pretty sure it's part of the "broken windows" anti crime policy, so philosophy that you need to clean: grafitti, people drinking (even non drunks), etc to clean up the neighborhoood and move crime out. sanitize. one of the reasons that Manhattan is looking too sanitized and gentrified now
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