Episode 448: Conservatives should get credit for not gentrifying neighborhoods
Summary
A straphanger drops a politically incorrect hot take: conservatives should get credit for not gentrifying neighborhoods. Kareem reluctantly agrees. The logic? Racist people who stay in their Connecticut towns accidentally preserve affordable housing, while well-meaning progressives move to Brooklyn and drive up rents. "I'd rather be dealing with racism and have cheap rent than to be homeless amongst progressives," the rider argues. Nobody wants to live on cardboard outside a vegan doughnut shop. The conversation spirals into whether there's a middle ground, some kind of gentrification with guardrails. One coffee shop, maybe a record store, but no gluten-free bakeries. And definitely a cap on blue-haired residents per capita. When Kareem asks where he lives to avoid this fate, the rider refuses to blow up his spot.
Full Transcript
So, what's your take? Conservatives should get credit for now gentrifying neighborhoods. I guess 100% agree.
100% agree. I mean, what am I going to do?
It doesn't feel good to give them credit. But they don't gentrify. You got to give credit where credit's due.
It's not out of love. It's not out of love. No,
they're not like, "Oh, we got to protect this neighborhood." They're like, "You guys all go over there and we'll all go over here. We'll stay in Connecticut." No, they're they're not like, "Oh, we love black people. We're going to protect their—" It's more like we're afraid of them. Uh, maybe racism, but I feel like sometimes it's more beneficial to be racist than to be progressive.
Stand clear of the closing doors, please. Progressives love black people, love brown people. They want to be part of the culture. And what do they do? They move to Brooklyn. Families, racist people say they're in their town. I'd rather be dealing with racism and have cheap rent than to be homeless amongst progressives. Nobody's out in the streets on a cardboard thinking, "Oh, this is the life I wanted. I wanted to live outside of a vegan doughnut shop."
My man's got a point. I've been to Williamsburg. I see what they did to that place. You can't even get a cup of coffee for under $11.
Absolutely. Maybe there's a way where you can kind of kind of do a little bit of both.
What do you like? Maybe you gentrify within within reason. Okay.
Like, I I think we don't need doughnut shops. I think we don't need cupcake shops. I think we don't need candle shops. As soon as you start like opening gluten-free, you're gone too far.
Yeah. So maybe there's a way to be like, look, like let's let's let's like make this place convenient. Have one coffee shop, one record shop. And I think you need to cap the amount of people with colored hair moving into the neighborhood
because that's the sign that the neighborhood's gone. We all know that. One blue hair per per capita.
I'm racist against blue hairs. Yeah.
Thank God. Right now I have no blue hairs in my neighborhood. Where you at?
I'm not telling you where where I'm at. I'm not blowing up this spot. I'm gatekeeping that.
Where do you live? Don't worry about it.
Wow. Are you a gingerbread?
Of course.