Contrary to right-wing propaganda, and "liberal propaganda" by pundits like Jonathan Chait, many diverse neighborhoods in the city voted against recall.
Okay, first, it's "Presidio". Second, it has higher percentage of Hispanic population than Diamond Heights.
Also, Ctrl-F, "Visitation Valley". Not found. Oh, but actually I was curious about that particular neighborhood which is 6% white and voted for the recall. Let's pretend Asians don't exist and it wasn't Asian voters who kicked Boudin out.
He was voted out in SOME of the richest, whitest areas of SF. This is true.
At the same time, nearly ALL of his support was in the other richest, whitest areas of San Francisco, as well, such as Noe Valley, Haight-Ashbury, Cole Valley, Bernal Heights, Glen Park, the Inner Sunset, and, yes, the Mission (for as many people of Hispanic decent there are in the Mission, there are an equal number of white residents, both at around 37% of the neighborhood's population).
Meanwhile, he was soundly beaten in the poorest, non-white areas of SF, such as Bayview/Hunters Point, Visitacion Valley, the Excelsior (the most Hispanic neighborhood in SF, by percentage of population), Lakeview, the non-bougie areas of Western Addition, Tenderloin, Chinatown, 6th Street. Not to mention the working middle-class Asian neighborhoods of the Sunset and the Richmond.
If you're going to tell the story of this election, tell the full story, not just the narrative.
This rant blog post is full of straw-man arguments. Disingenuous. Cope piece by a self hating white girl
Yep, this entire post is bizarre beyond belief and functions as some kind of weepy rationalization for, you know, reality. It doesn't seem to understand that a majority vote is still a majority vote. Far worse, it hand waves aside the POC-heavy neighborhoods of Bayview/HP, Chinatown, Excelsior, Richmond, Outer Sunset. One might think that Tana regularly diminishes POC, particularly Asian Americans, as she does it with such ease here.
I live in SF. My white colleagues at the nonprofit I work at were mainly very much opposed to the recall. Our clients, many of them impoverished POC who live in the neighborhoods noted, were quite energized about removing him. Well, those who were aware of the recall in the first place. Personally, I chose to opt-out on this particular vote. Possibly because I'm mixed-race LOL.
Anyway, this is just another exhibit of yet another white person who is convinced they can explain POC. And in this case, she doubles down by implying that POC are so stupid and easily misled that they are just swallowing narratives they are being force-fed. Sorry sis, I think POC are perfectly capable of figuring out why they are voting the way they vote.
The Sunset is not working class, come on. The average sale price of a home is 2 million dollars and it probably has the highest home ownership in the city.
Yep that's the average price and yep it has some of the highest rates of home ownership. Doesn't negate the fact that the OUTER Sunset (much larger than Inner) is chock full of Asian families who have lived there for a very long time. And yep, who probably consider themselves middle class rather than working class. But they also, in most cases, didn't buy their homes at the current valuation. And that also doesn't negate the fact that there are plenty of fixed income Asian seniors and poorer Asian families that also live there as non-owners, in rent-controlled homes. Outer Sunset is not an especially wealthy neighborhood in comparison to Pac Heights, the Marina, or the tech paradise of China Basin. Of course the least well-off Asians in SF do tend to live in apartment buildings in Chinatown and the TL. But that doesn't negate the fact that Outer Sunset should never be considered a rich neighborhood.
Dumb comment. I didn't say that Outer Sunset families were millionaires. If you think that neighborhood is full of millionaires - rather than a bunch of families in regular- and even smaller-sized homes on streets that have a suburban vibe to them - then you haven't walked through that area much. Probably not at all. I have, many times over the past 30 years. There is a plurality of 65+ who live in that neighborhood. Over three-quarters of the residents have a Bachelor's degree at most. Median household income is @ $120k annually, which is actually @ the median for San Francisco overall. This is not a neighborhood of millionaires.
Do you think the people who pay for 2 million dollar homes literally put 2 million dollars down for payment because they are multi-millionaires with cash to burn LOL? More relevantly, in the case of this neighborhood that is at least half Asian-Americans (as well as folks descended from Irish & Eastern European immigrants)... do you think that all of the homes owned by families in the Outer Sunset were even purchased in this millennium??
"Anyone." Sure thing bro. I guess my former neighbors in the building I live in - a Pilates instructor married to a EMT - who purchased a home some time ago in Bernal via a MOHCD program... must have been secret millionaires. I could do the same via the same program or similar ones, and I am a non-millionaire who works at a social services nonprofit. San Francisco is not just The Marina or Pac Heights or Sea Cliff or Presidio Heights.
Good grief, you're apparently a Berkeley grad, you should understand the area and its residents and its housing programs better. Stop making dumb comments.
The recall did fail in the Western Addition. Hunter's Point narrowly voted for recall 51-49. The only black majority neighborhood in SF is India Basin and they rejected the recall 53-47.
I just visited SF from New York. I thought I had seen some tough stuff in my neck of the woods. Nope.
Whatever your "narrative" is versus the one you are calling out makes no sense to me. I saw a city in ruin, on its knees. Men defecating in the street. Tents. Addicts. People suffering from mental health issues, raving on the street, with nobody listening.
The last time I visited the city--about five years ago--change was afoot but there was no way to telegraph this nightmare. Forget about narrative: whatever the reforms, they are not working. And yes, defunding the police does mean less cops, which means less response.
Sometimes that happens in life. Put someone in office who will balance reform, stay true to the freedom of San Francisco and reclaim a great city.
I do find this piece interesting in that I spent four days among super-left liberals--all white, not a person of color anywhere in sight. San Francisco and the left is as full of crap as the conservative, idiotic right. (Help the black people, defund the police. Just not HERE!)
Stop blaming everything on "narrative", or get better at pushing one that makes sense. All I know is, seeing two men with dropped pants on a street at 12:30 in the afternoon in San Francisco, doing their is not a good look for a beautiful, historic city.
This is quite the reactionary response. It has nothing to do with the topic at hand, other than to say that the situation on the streets in San Francisco is bad, which everyone already knows.
The narrative that is being called out is the one that claims that working class neighborhoods and people massively supported the recall of Boudin, which is not supported by data. The opposite claim is true.
New York has a low per capita crime rate, it is not 1990. I don't know why New Yorkers are always claim to be "hard" like that. Of the largest 100 cities in the US, it clocks in as the 20th safest.
Okay, first, it's "Presidio". Second, it has higher percentage of Hispanic population than Diamond Heights.
Also, Ctrl-F, "Visitation Valley". Not found. Oh, but actually I was curious about that particular neighborhood which is 6% white and voted for the recall. Let's pretend Asians don't exist and it wasn't Asian voters who kicked Boudin out.
He was voted out in SOME of the richest, whitest areas of SF. This is true.
At the same time, nearly ALL of his support was in the other richest, whitest areas of San Francisco, as well, such as Noe Valley, Haight-Ashbury, Cole Valley, Bernal Heights, Glen Park, the Inner Sunset, and, yes, the Mission (for as many people of Hispanic decent there are in the Mission, there are an equal number of white residents, both at around 37% of the neighborhood's population).
Meanwhile, he was soundly beaten in the poorest, non-white areas of SF, such as Bayview/Hunters Point, Visitacion Valley, the Excelsior (the most Hispanic neighborhood in SF, by percentage of population), Lakeview, the non-bougie areas of Western Addition, Tenderloin, Chinatown, 6th Street. Not to mention the working middle-class Asian neighborhoods of the Sunset and the Richmond.
If you're going to tell the story of this election, tell the full story, not just the narrative.
This rant blog post is full of straw-man arguments. Disingenuous. Cope piece by a self hating white girl
Yep, this entire post is bizarre beyond belief and functions as some kind of weepy rationalization for, you know, reality. It doesn't seem to understand that a majority vote is still a majority vote. Far worse, it hand waves aside the POC-heavy neighborhoods of Bayview/HP, Chinatown, Excelsior, Richmond, Outer Sunset. One might think that Tana regularly diminishes POC, particularly Asian Americans, as she does it with such ease here.
I live in SF. My white colleagues at the nonprofit I work at were mainly very much opposed to the recall. Our clients, many of them impoverished POC who live in the neighborhoods noted, were quite energized about removing him. Well, those who were aware of the recall in the first place. Personally, I chose to opt-out on this particular vote. Possibly because I'm mixed-race LOL.
Anyway, this is just another exhibit of yet another white person who is convinced they can explain POC. And in this case, she doubles down by implying that POC are so stupid and easily misled that they are just swallowing narratives they are being force-fed. Sorry sis, I think POC are perfectly capable of figuring out why they are voting the way they vote.
Vis Valley is 11% white, not 6%. Hunters Point voted only 51% yes.
The Sunset is not working class, come on. The average sale price of a home is 2 million dollars and it probably has the highest home ownership in the city.
Yep that's the average price and yep it has some of the highest rates of home ownership. Doesn't negate the fact that the OUTER Sunset (much larger than Inner) is chock full of Asian families who have lived there for a very long time. And yep, who probably consider themselves middle class rather than working class. But they also, in most cases, didn't buy their homes at the current valuation. And that also doesn't negate the fact that there are plenty of fixed income Asian seniors and poorer Asian families that also live there as non-owners, in rent-controlled homes. Outer Sunset is not an especially wealthy neighborhood in comparison to Pac Heights, the Marina, or the tech paradise of China Basin. Of course the least well-off Asians in SF do tend to live in apartment buildings in Chinatown and the TL. But that doesn't negate the fact that Outer Sunset should never be considered a rich neighborhood.
"Working class" millionaires?
Dumb comment. I didn't say that Outer Sunset families were millionaires. If you think that neighborhood is full of millionaires - rather than a bunch of families in regular- and even smaller-sized homes on streets that have a suburban vibe to them - then you haven't walked through that area much. Probably not at all. I have, many times over the past 30 years. There is a plurality of 65+ who live in that neighborhood. Over three-quarters of the residents have a Bachelor's degree at most. Median household income is @ $120k annually, which is actually @ the median for San Francisco overall. This is not a neighborhood of millionaires.
Do you think the people who pay for 2 million dollar homes literally put 2 million dollars down for payment because they are multi-millionaires with cash to burn LOL? More relevantly, in the case of this neighborhood that is at least half Asian-Americans (as well as folks descended from Irish & Eastern European immigrants)... do you think that all of the homes owned by families in the Outer Sunset were even purchased in this millennium??
Anyone who bought a house more than a few years ago in San Francisco is a millionaire.
"Anyone." Sure thing bro. I guess my former neighbors in the building I live in - a Pilates instructor married to a EMT - who purchased a home some time ago in Bernal via a MOHCD program... must have been secret millionaires. I could do the same via the same program or similar ones, and I am a non-millionaire who works at a social services nonprofit. San Francisco is not just The Marina or Pac Heights or Sea Cliff or Presidio Heights.
Good grief, you're apparently a Berkeley grad, you should understand the area and its residents and its housing programs better. Stop making dumb comments.
No the recall failed in Hunter's Point and the Western Addition. Black voters are the only race that voted against the recall. Stop making shit up.
The recall did fail in the Western Addition. Hunter's Point narrowly voted for recall 51-49. The only black majority neighborhood in SF is India Basin and they rejected the recall 53-47.
Black voters opposed the recall, Asian voters supported it.
I just visited SF from New York. I thought I had seen some tough stuff in my neck of the woods. Nope.
Whatever your "narrative" is versus the one you are calling out makes no sense to me. I saw a city in ruin, on its knees. Men defecating in the street. Tents. Addicts. People suffering from mental health issues, raving on the street, with nobody listening.
The last time I visited the city--about five years ago--change was afoot but there was no way to telegraph this nightmare. Forget about narrative: whatever the reforms, they are not working. And yes, defunding the police does mean less cops, which means less response.
Sometimes that happens in life. Put someone in office who will balance reform, stay true to the freedom of San Francisco and reclaim a great city.
I do find this piece interesting in that I spent four days among super-left liberals--all white, not a person of color anywhere in sight. San Francisco and the left is as full of crap as the conservative, idiotic right. (Help the black people, defund the police. Just not HERE!)
Stop blaming everything on "narrative", or get better at pushing one that makes sense. All I know is, seeing two men with dropped pants on a street at 12:30 in the afternoon in San Francisco, doing their is not a good look for a beautiful, historic city.
This is quite the reactionary response. It has nothing to do with the topic at hand, other than to say that the situation on the streets in San Francisco is bad, which everyone already knows.
The narrative that is being called out is the one that claims that working class neighborhoods and people massively supported the recall of Boudin, which is not supported by data. The opposite claim is true.
New York has a low per capita crime rate, it is not 1990. I don't know why New Yorkers are always claim to be "hard" like that. Of the largest 100 cities in the US, it clocks in as the 20th safest.
Your use of the word Karen to disparage a "racial" demographic is disgusting. I'm guessing you use white boy too...
Delete your blog. Richmond, Sunset, Outer Richmond, Vistasion Valley are not richest and whitest. Noe Valley and Castro are
All leftists are freaks