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[quote=Anonymous]"Real city people have no bandwidth to lay down dead in the street or start fires as part of a “protest.” Look at our day: after our miserable commute to work, we have long days in the office, followed by happy hour, client dinners, drinks, maybe a fundraiser or two or having cigars at Shelly’s—and that doesn’t include going to the gym, picking up dry cleaning, seeing our actual friends or spouse, and that miserable commute back home."

So, apparently, the people who clean his office, make his drinks at the bar, cook his food, work at his gym, clean his clothes, etc., aren't "real city people."  His idea of "city people" excludes pretty much everyone who makes the city run, who provides those services that he likes, etc.  It's nonsense.  Plenty of those protesters are also "real city people," who live and work and study in the city.  The neighborhoods he "watched the birth of" were already neighborhoods; it's just that the people in them weren't wealthy and white, so they didn't count.

Like, I also live in the city, and that's not my day AT ALL.  I have an easy commute to work, I have a happy hour every once in a while, but I don't have client dinners and drinks and fundraisers and cigars at Shelly's -- way to universalize your experience, buddy.  And I DO care about the well-being of my fellow city dwellers.  Don't mistake being a dick for being an authentic urbanite.

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