That's racist! update.

[Dill]

(01-09-2018, 05:36 PM)bfine32 Wrote: I read the source document and still found it to focus on race. of course I've never claimed to be as "open-minded' as the left; however, when the first paragraph of your paper is titled White Privilege and the paragraph goes on to expound on this "privilege" (aka safe places for white folk) I'd say the paper's focus on race is a little more than a Red Herring. Hell, the author admits to adding race to the equation.

All I've gotten so far is that these markets are racist (or causes "gentrification") because they "cater to white folks". How do they do that exactly? Only sell mayonnaise... I make a joke because the whole premise is absolutely ludicrous.  The left cannot find any examples of overt racism so they have to fabricate covert examples such as farmer's markets.

Did you notice the book in question was an anthology, collecting a number of essays on the subject of "environmental gentrification"?

The premise is that environmental improvements in many city spaces tend to eventually drive up real estate prices and become unaffordable for poor and immigrants. That premise can be either proved or disproved by case studies and data. The editors of the book outline a strategy called "just green enough" to incorporate neighborhood improvements without triggering the gentrification problem. 

The analysis of markets, among other things, fits into this argument. The point is not to call farmers markets "racist" but to understand how their implementation may, in certain places, have effects quite other than those intended.

What "first paragraph" are you refering to? Seems to me you are still addressing the Fox news representation of the book, with its collection of "trigger" phrases for the Fox audience, not the book itself.