"It's all those middle
class white people killing all the mom-and-pop stores because
they want their Starbucks coffee," my wife's friend went
off on one of her gentrification tirades.
"I can't even find a
cheap apartment in Echo Park because of all those fucking
white people," she continued.
"Wow," I
interrupted. I was listening in the other room and she didn't
know I was there. "That's kind of funny because I know
several Latino real estate brokers that buy homes from other
Latinos in financial trouble for less than the value of the
home. Then they do a Mickey Mouse remodeling job, inflate the
price and sell it to another Latino using an ARM loan. Of
course, they don't explain to these people that they won't be
able to afford the house in a couple of years, but hey, as
longs as its Latinos screwing other Latinos, right?
"I suppose that's all
the fault of white people too?"
That was my last word. I
wasn't allowed another because any other viewpoint is
apparently wrong, and there has been a lot of that lately. How
many times have I seen liberals storm some college
campus to prevent a different point of view from speaking?
Now that's standing for
freedom of speech!! I thought such fascism was the domain of
ignorant Republicans. Where's the ACLU? Protect Nazis marching
down Jewish neighborhoods, but don't protect the rights of
those whose politics are different?
I say too many liberals
aren't liberals, they're simply ignorant fascists masquerading
as liberals. Anybody whom doesn't value difference is
typically either a racist, classist, facist or some
combination of the above.
Why are sound-minded liberals
letting facists take over the liberal platform?
