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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I hope you're well intentioned, but you come off as super condescending.[/quote]

And naive, sheltered and stupid.   And white, 30 years old, and from Evanston, IL.  I have no doubt, however, that OP takes tests well and writes scintialting reports for her non-profit.[/quote]

Yes.  Publicly liberal, privately segregationist.  Oh, Democrats...[/quote]

You're going to blame them, after all the hate hurled in their direction?[/quote]

Hate hurled in this city is rarely, if ever, at Democrats.  We're all so busy vilifying Brian Williams for his lies, exaggerations, and outright fabrications that we're giving Hillary Clinton a free pass for doing the exact same thing.

The point remains that in this very Democrat city, we all talk a big game, but when push comes to shove everyone who isn't poor, either moves or becomes a closet segregationist.[/quote]

You seem to be forgetting that the segregation was already in place before the gentrifiers came along.

Gentrifiers buying homes in already-segregated neighborhoods are the exact opposite of segregationists.  
Gentrifiers sending their kids to already-segregated schools are the exact opposite of segregationists.
Gentrifiers trying to make those neighborhoods and schools more attractive to a more diverse group of people is the exact opposite of segregation.

Seems to me the argument is exactly backwards.

The resistance to gentrification is what is pro-segregationist.[/quote]

Who is blaming gentrifiers?  The derision, in this case, is being leveled at Democrat hypocrites.  [/quote]

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