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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]"Schadenfreude" means joy at another's misfortune.  No one's feeling joy that the Prince is leaving; and neither is Prince experiencing misfortune.  In fact, he is much more privileged than many people who live in his old neighborhood.  No, the DCUM comments display different emotions than that.

For me, it is amusement at Prince's decision, mixed in with sadness for other young parents who live in his neighborhood.[/quote]
That's why I call it "misplaced."  You and others seem to relish his supposed "failure" to stay ideologically true to some set of hipster-gentrifier values that you want to ascribe to him.

It sounds to me like he's just a guy who made a reasonable decision about where to live when he was younger, and a similarly reasonable decision about where to live now that he has children in school.  Like anyone else who leaves a neighborhood they called home for 10-15 years, I suspect he's experiencing a mixture of sadness at leaving but excitement for the future.  His move just isn't the grand political & cultural statement you and others seem to want to make of it.[/quote]

You're wrong on two fronts:  YOU misplaced term, "Schadenfreude," by applying it to others when the term does not apply to the others' psychology.  You're confused; get a dictionary. Second, Prince IS representative of his old neighborhood, having monikered himself the "Prince" of said neighborhood and has trumpeted cool, gentrifying D.C. for years through that soapbox.  He's not just some dude.  Rather, he is representative of what others are mocking, and in fact, he is behaving exactly how others would expect his Fate to be determined.  His choice -- you call it a "choice" -- is in reality no choice at all.[/quote]

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