New York City is the most perfectly "American" place in the nation, just one wave of newcomers after another, gradually building up the culture, one remarkable cultural collision after another.
MAGA chuds hate NYC not because it's awful but because it disproves every lie they tell about immigration
We in academia must really do better in pushing back against this brand of nonsense. Either put up empirics or shut up.
Yeah, the moment you give yourself license to be cruel to people if they meet a certain criteria, you’ll just keep expanding that criteria to feed the endorphin rush being cruel gives you.
then (c) the only way to preserve affordability is to keep demand down by making the neighborhood unappealing to yuppies.
The issue is that (b) is not actually true, and (c) is an argument for starving poor neighborhoods of needed investment and public services, which is deeply inequitable.
If god had wanted me to be butch, she wouldn’t have made me so fond of rhinestones.
Hurricane Andrew killed 65 people and resulted in the state rewriting building codes even though it made houses more expensive to build, while heat waves kill scores more people almost every year and broad swaths of the planet still refuse to install AC or set up cooling centers.
Kevin M. Kruse
The Bengali Knicks poet and the Sikh dholi guys combined forces for a follow-up!
Now we just need the sewing machine guy and the ride a bike with stuff on his head guy to meet.
