Callaghan: Gentrifiers post radical social media content out of neighborhood guilt
Andrew Callaghan · Andrew Callaghan of All Gas No Brakes Goes Independent · Jun 9, 2021 · at 20:55
Independent journalist Andrew Callaghan discusses political performativity and social media culture across American metropolitan areas.
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“That's why all these like gentrifier, like white people are so, so scared of like not, not appearing like as radical as possible. Like, you know what I mean? Like in San Francisco and Seattle... Cause the deep down they know, like in places like Bushwick and the mission district and in West Oakland, the people who are moving in and gentrifying the area, they know like what they're doing. So they feel like they have to be like super hardcore on social media with the infographics and with the Just trying to look as hardcore as possible.”
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