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How San Francisco Hazed a Tech Bro (backchannel.com)

Posted by EditorDavid on from the second-acts dept.

An anonymous reader writes: In December 2013 San Francisco's tension with its surging tech class reached a breaking point. Protesters swarmed Google buses. They stood in front of Twitter carrying a coffin labeled "Affordable Housing." Google glassholes were on the rise. In the midst of this, the CEO and founder of AngelHack posted a rant about the homeless. "In downtown SF the degenerates gather like hyenas, spit, urinate, taunt you, sell drugs, get rowdy, they act like they own the center of the city," Greg Gopman wrote. He thought he was becoming a thought leader. Instead, the entire city turned against him. Reviled and suddenly unemployable, Gopman spent a quixotic year spinning up businesses to solve homelessness. His journey is weirdly emblematic of today's startup-fueled San Francisco.

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  1. As a tourist... by x0ra · · Score: 5, Insightful

    walking down Market from Embarcadero to Castro brings up a few areas which indeed do look like shit, not to mention the awkward times when a delirious hobo get in a trolley. SJW are probably gonna mod me down, but that would be one more fact they conveniently ignore...

    1. Re:As a tourist... by Daemonik · · Score: 5, Insightful

      If you want to live in a curated life, move to Disney Land, buy the clothes they tell you to wear, work the job they tell you to work.

      Rest of us will be dealing with real life. You won't be missed.

    2. Re:As a tourist... by afgam28 · · Score: 5, Insightful

      First of all, Market St takes you right between the Tenderloin and the 6th & Market area, which locals knows to avoid. Clueless tourists however, don't.

      Second, everyone in SF knows it looks like shit there, no one's pretending it doesn't. But about a third or maybe even half of the homeless people there are mentally ill. It's fucked up that as a society, we'd leave sick people out there to die, and demand that they "beg coyly, stay quiet, and generally stay out of your way". We don't do that with people with cancer, or physical disabilities, and we shouldn't for the mentally ill either. You can look down on "SJW"s all you want, but the guy was acting like a cunt, and he got treated the way he deserved.

  2. He forgot the rule #1 of dealing with millenials by choke · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Talk PC, act sociopathic.

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