one struggle against cops trying to evict you from your home for the sake of a soulless petite bourgeois landlord to do real estate development. What's the difference between gentrification and settler colonialist displacement?

  • buh [she/her]
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    1 year ago

    I think when people learn what the "open air prison" nature of Gaza entails they become a lot more sympathetic

  • ChaosMaterialist [he/him]
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    1 year ago

    In San Francisco there is a strong suspicion that Landlords are committing arson to their valuable property as a way to evict long-term (usually poor) residents and small shops. It's totally understandable why people strongly sympathize with Palestinians.

    Some sources:

    • https://sfist.com/2015/11/25/are_mission_landlords_really_burnin/

    • http://america.aljazeera.com/articles/2015/4/2/hot-rental-market-sparks-suspicions-of-landlord-arson-in-san-francisco.html

    • https://www.gq.com/story/san-francisco-is-burning