Kate has been tweeting criticisms of YIMBY 4 the past few days highlighting that massive fraud w/a lot of the material thats been shared previously. Whats noticeable in the replies & QT beyond just the yt bro responses, is the glee they express in piling on. 🧵
https://twitter.com/katewillett/status/1535856241259552769
You’ll get a familiar eye-roll from everyone who criticizes YIMBY here: be they quiet academics, housing justice activists, or the few courageous politicians. Folks accustomed to robust debate on public policy on the left will say it’s unlike anything they’ve ever experienced. /2
Folk get into knock-down drag out fights over school vouchers & charter schools. Yet even in that most heated issue, you won’t find ppl who universally say how toxic engagement on the issue online is.
So why on this?
Simply: the toxicity/the Proud Boys energy is a necessity. /3
So why on this?
Simply: the toxicity/the Proud Boys energy is a necessity. /3
There’s a lot more to be said about this but just imagine what it takes to deflect energy that really should be directed towards regulating the worlds most powerful industry (finance & real estate), into a belief that deregulating such industry is a moral imperative. /4
And there’s the overlay of those most harmed being BIPOC, low-income, and marginalized & those most advantaged being white gentifiers sum who feelings are hurt b/c they arent greeted as welcomed colonizers n the formerly redlined communities that are now “cool”/“up and coming” /5
It’s quite a feat to cast BIPOC tenants/activists fighting to stay in their homes and maintain their community in a white supremacist capitalist society into the enemy - or “left NIMBY” as they say.
But YIMBY accomplish it using a familiar playbook. /6
But YIMBY accomplish it using a familiar playbook. /6
Other anti-left use similar strategies.
e.g. fighting racial reparative policy by casting those who are for it as the actual racists (“reverse racism”). Similar to YIMBY, such relies on a false moral appeal/crass simplism to casts victims as powerful oppressors. /7
e.g. fighting racial reparative policy by casting those who are for it as the actual racists (“reverse racism”). Similar to YIMBY, such relies on a false moral appeal/crass simplism to casts victims as powerful oppressors. /7
Shutting down debate & using “10 word answers” h/t #TheWestWing on stuff that require paragraphs and convos (any number of which make the YIMBY argument crumble) is a major tactic. It’s also why Twitter in particular is a useful medium for them. /8
See the “Just build more housing/legalize apts” responses.
Ok…for whom?
Where?
What a/b the permitted units not built?
When/why would the market forces ever finance projects that cuts into their margins?
What a/b when said catalytic projects make stuff less affordable? /9
Ok…for whom?
Where?
What a/b the permitted units not built?
When/why would the market forces ever finance projects that cuts into their margins?
What a/b when said catalytic projects make stuff less affordable? /9
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