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Hippie dipshits...
Jun. 8th, 2007 03:33 pmwell, Hopedance Magazine had me with their issue #57, but then they pretty much lost me with this book review in which they say:
In another section, Philadelphia neighbors “reclaim” a park from what they call “the element” – “prostitutes and pushers.” While the space they have created, lush with flowers and trees, sounds beautiful, the notion of “cleaning up” a neighborhood by displacing some of the most marginalized people within it does not. Because this process is described uncritically in a book that also includes several mentions of residents working closely with police to improve their neighborhoods, the allegiance of the authors to dominant, and oppressive, systems seems clear.
I have no words. Because raising children around pimps and druggies is so much healthier than raising them near parks filled with flowers and food? Oh, wah, so we marginalize addicts and scumbags? Boo fucking hoo.
In another section, Philadelphia neighbors “reclaim” a park from what they call “the element” – “prostitutes and pushers.” While the space they have created, lush with flowers and trees, sounds beautiful, the notion of “cleaning up” a neighborhood by displacing some of the most marginalized people within it does not. Because this process is described uncritically in a book that also includes several mentions of residents working closely with police to improve their neighborhoods, the allegiance of the authors to dominant, and oppressive, systems seems clear.
I have no words. Because raising children around pimps and druggies is so much healthier than raising them near parks filled with flowers and food? Oh, wah, so we marginalize addicts and scumbags? Boo fucking hoo.
