/lit/ - Literature

>>16841922
>actual racism

lmao goggins bitched and moaned about his ex-wife's father because "he was racist and said i would mistreat and abandon her"

surprise surprise, goggins turned out to be an abusive psycho, and once she had the baby, goggins ran off

>>13597737
>progressive taxation is communism

>>11527742
>That being said, its the author's attitude that is the cause of this change.

I'm glad someone else noticed. The author is essentially complaining that there are now too many people just like him who move into areas and suck them dry of cultural capital. It's like going to Disneyland and getting angry at how crowded it is without realizing that *you* are part of that crowd. The author is just pissed that now there are more upper middle class whitecollar shitheads like him who want to travel from place to place like a swarm of locusts rather than just staying put and contributing to "local culture" like good little working class termites.

>>11527663
>swarm in and out of the metropolis in specially chartered buses to work in Silicon Valley, using the city itself as a gigantic bed-and-breakfast
>Boston, which used to be a city of a thousand nooks and crannies, back-alley restaurants and shops, dive bars and ice cream parlors

The lack of introspection is amazing.

>>11528272
>The people who complain about the loss of culture are the same ones who move to these areas.

The issue is that there are too many gentrifiers. With these people, it's like building a beach house out on a beautiful stretch of seafront. You just want it to be you and maybe one or two of your friends. The "locals" are merely there for decoration and to provide you with sundries when solitude becomes too much.

Add in a couple dozen more gentrifiers, and that seafront bloats up with condos and two dozen other beach houses. Grrr, how dare they encroach on your personal kingdom!? Proof in the pudding: the author isn't even a New York local yet acts fiercely territorial regardless.

It's like that old joke:
>A hipster walks into a bar and says "Man, look at all these hipsters."

>>10769596
>Americans
>white

Poor anon, he can't see that this a literature section because of his fat

What are some books about the insecurity resulting from having no ethnic identity or history?

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>>10296412
His diction makes me suspect a. bait or b. nu-/pol/ newfag to /lit/ that doesn't even read