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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Honestly- the gentrify crowd did this. You can’t just toss up row houses and close your eyes to the actual needs of the neighborhood. The problems of systematic/generational racism aren’t going to vanish simply because you bought an over priced home. 
I see strong parallels between gentrifiers and climate change deniers. You think that you can muscle through any ill effects of your actions. Turns out- you are both wrong. 
So keep pricing people out of the city… and see how that plays out for you. [/quote]

Gentrification is not responsible for this.  Do you just not grasp that all of Logan Circle was much more dangerous before it got gentrified?  [/quote]

NIMBYs are responsible for the lack of housing, not gentrifyers (who generally make things safer anyway). [/quote]
Gentrification is literally taking AWAY backyards. DC is for millionaires & homeless folks. That’s it. You can put your ‘hate has no home here’ yard sign up- but that’s not really a thing. I’m not saying another deserves to be shot. This entire situation is tragic. But I am saying the folks who are squeezed out if their communities, can’t afford/wouldn’t even be allowed in those 14th street restaurants, have no pathway out of the cycle of poverty are going to communicate in some other way. 
And yes the ‘lock them up’ is NIMBY [/quote]

This is completely asinine. These shootings are motivated by stupid disputes between young men who have nothing better to do. Sure, addressing the causes of urban poverty might obliquely address the shootings. But the notion that these shootings are somehow the "language of the unheard" is unmoored from reality. [/quote]

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