tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-683382864156505640.post423040607451541290..comments2023-08-14T11:44:27.299-04:00Comments on Jeremiah's<br> Vanishing New York: One Manhattan ExpandsJeremiah Mosshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11791516443125872364noreply@blogger.comBlogger8125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-683382864156505640.post-70852058306801559142018-08-20T20:39:51.568-04:002018-08-20T20:39:51.568-04:00Nothing defensive about not suffering misplaced wh...<br />Nothing defensive about not suffering misplaced white liberal guilt, but both that and identity politics in the US prevents clear-sighted analysis of socio-economics. Yes, the ruling class in the US is largely white - not a profound observation; try to see beyond it. The neoliberal reshaping of urban space is a global phenomenon and starts to manifest itself long after the GI Bill. It might help to look beyond the US, to Mumbai, say, or to Shanghai or Lagos and then tell me that the clearing out of working class, or poor, communities by wealthy developers is inherently tied to whiteness.<br /><br />Americans simply can't discuss anything without bringing race into the equation, especially the white hand-wringing middle classes, and rather than further the "progressive' cause, they help perpetuate they ills they profess to fight. This is about developers and corporate power and race relations are being set back by generations by moronic ideas such as the above. Now the white independent cafe-owner gets a brick through the window and the 7-11 is left alone and who is the real villain? That's how stupid this is.ben Thttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12765245149257680311noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-683382864156505640.post-21844284358395533842018-08-06T12:22:39.158-04:002018-08-06T12:22:39.158-04:00Those who are pushing back so defensively against ...Those who are pushing back so defensively against this being about whiteness: <br /><br />You need to familiarize yourselves with the history of urban renewal which has always been intended for white people and has continually and cyclically displaced people of color. Root Shock is a good place to start. Also lots of documentaries on how the selective application of the GI Bill and the federally sponsored development of the suburbs racially segregated them.<br /><br />Bringing the suburbs into the city is fundamentally white, both culturally and in terms of racialized power. It cannot just be class. It's both. Unlike the commentators, I don't see a contradiction--why can't gentrification be both largely white and upper-middle class?<br /><br />The defensive reaction springs from a misunderstanding of racism as the conscious and mean thoughts of mean-spirited individuals. Here it is referring to implicit colonizing assumptions in how privileged groups exercise power.jordanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09340637304258887562noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-683382864156505640.post-43500410668201868902018-07-26T15:40:50.416-04:002018-07-26T15:40:50.416-04:00Saw this building on Million Dollar Listing on Bra...Saw this building on Million Dollar Listing on Bravo. SMH...Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10233857345964930614noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-683382864156505640.post-73049755260658271442018-07-16T22:16:02.727-04:002018-07-16T22:16:02.727-04:00I agree with all of the above but for the nonsense...I agree with all of the above but for the nonsense about whiteness. This issue is not about race, but economics and more specifically neoliberal capitalism. There are too many obvious flaws in Shannon's idea of "ontological expansiveness" to go into here, but the US obsession with race prevents any real breakthroughs in understanding and tackling the bedrock of socio-economic ills the country faces (and ultimately the very real racial issues that are their consequence). You and Shannon are letting what John Gray would call "hyper-liberalism" cloud the issue of hyper-gentrification. Do you think there might be one or two affluent Asians moving in to One Manhattan? Will the handful of blacks or Hispanics who will move in somehow be so enlightened as to be above cross fit in the park? It's a grand distraction from the issue at hand and this kind of regressive nonsense makes the "left" (it's not really the left, it's liberals) look foolish. Otherwise I enjoy your blog immensely, melancholy reading though it is.ben Thttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12765245149257680311noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-683382864156505640.post-73344162318434164022018-07-13T12:54:37.654-04:002018-07-13T12:54:37.654-04:00Thank you for this post, for the new term (at leas...Thank you for this post, for the new term (at least for me), "white ontological expansiveness," and for the link to Shannon Sullivan's work, which looks fascinating!John Khttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08073378940347627766noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-683382864156505640.post-66576460833797041542018-07-12T16:42:56.358-04:002018-07-12T16:42:56.358-04:00If greed was "good" in the 80s, it's...If greed was "good" in the 80s, it's better than good in the new millennium. cmarrtyyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06948995395819496180noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-683382864156505640.post-12221771713913910312018-07-11T10:04:32.509-04:002018-07-11T10:04:32.509-04:00Appalled as I am about how developers have been pr...Appalled as I am about how developers have been profiteering in this area (much like advertisers, decades ago, who insisted that people smoke themselves to death for the benefit of Tobacco executives), I do not like references to what "white people" do, as if there is still a good chance to generalize and condemn simply because the trend allows it in the case of the rich and more powerful. This is merely a much more frightening concept of exploitation - something that's very hard to resist, unless nearly all of the opposed are resolved and willing to go to battle. I'm not sure if that's the case here. People like to complain, post bills, write their tweets, but unless there is a sober attack in the other direction, none of this will change. Too many seem to feel they have already lost, and that's how it works.Jameshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15565030682360603009noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-683382864156505640.post-78208374238586224002018-07-09T20:16:55.346-04:002018-07-09T20:16:55.346-04:00Thanks for putting into words what we all see and ...Thanks for putting into words what we all see and yet can't describe. Important and far-reaching article. Horrifying.<br /><br />Why do these Stepford type people even want to be in New York? zuzuzpetalshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10020314595485087690noreply@blogger.com