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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]First off, if you bought a place in Columbia Heights in 2020, you aren't exactly on the leading edge of gentrification.

But more importantly, you're right.  What do your friends say when you make these points to them?  [/quote]

Yes, totally, we are hardly at the bleeding edge of gentrification. But even if we bought somewhere, say, East of the River, I still wouldn’t see an issue with it. I understand the issue when new people move in and start calling the cops on all their neighbors and don’t care to meet them, but we of course won’t do any of that. We’re looking forward to getting to know all our neighbors.

One friend suggested I should have moved to a rural white community that I could afford, and then I wouldn’t be displacing anyone. Another friend paid twice what I did (with help of course) to limit herself to WOTP neighborhoods, which apparently is somehow more ethical. Baffling. [/quote]

Your friends are quite rude to be saying this crap to you.  But I guess it's better than saying it behind your back?  You need new friends. [/quote]

I don’t think they meant to be rude. It’s stuff that people always talk about in theory from being in activist circles, and we’re just now at the age that people are starting to buy homes (30’s), and haven’t fully thought through what it means to say this to an actual individual and not on Twitter.

I don’t break friendships because of political opinions, even when they are clearly dumb. But I definitely rolled my eyes at this one and I’m trying to think through what solution people who think that are even driving towards. Some other comments in the thread (don’t call the city on your elderly neighbors, send your kids to local schools) are already far more thoughtful. [/quote]

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