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[quote=Anonymous]Sing it, OP.

I also think that you have kind of two distinct sets of people who sound like they think the same things, but don't. There are some progressive true believers who really believe, for instance, that violence interruptors and decreasing police funding is a good idea. And then you have a large group of people who are privately very skeptical of that but don't want to be accused of being racist or, worse, conservative, so they just kind of nod along.

I also think a lot of people in DC don't understand that a lot of the great stuff in this city is a relatively recent development dating back to the Fenty administration when the city started getting a ton of investment coming in to develop these communities like U Street/14th, Shaw, H Street, Navy Yard, etc. Like many of the people who will bemoan gentrification only moved here after gentrification turned the city around -- they don't even understand the degree to which the lifestyle they enjoy in DC is built on an actual policy of gentrification -- attracting business and developers to come in and redevelop parts of the city that have been struggling for decades. They don't understand that they are gentrifiers because they weren't on the vanguard -- they are like Wave 14 and think they are just folks.

Plus you have a lot of white people who move to DC from places that don't have many black people or immigrants, and they kind of forget what they think because they don't want to be the ignorant white person, so they just nod along. Again, the activists in DC can be super militant and are quick to call people out for anything other than 100% allegiance to their causes. People are afraid to cross them and often don't feel they are in the position to do so.[/quote]

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