You know, I’m not as down on Matt Yglesias now that he writes for Slate. Compared to his Think Progress days, he shows less of the mealy-mouthed progressive-liberal side that used to just make me cringe. But today in a Reddit “Ask Me Anything” segment, he wrote in response to a question about the high number of vacant properties in downtrodden cities like Flint and Detroit:
This is an interesting issue. One problem that I know they have in Detroit is simply that the municipal records about who owns the vacant structures are a distaster. They need to get that data up to par, and then maybe the lots can be passed on to remaining homeowners.
In general, I think tearing down buildings is a sad idea. Can’t we find someone to give these houses to? Even if nobody in America wants one, there are lots of worse places in the world than Flint. In Hait (sic) there are people living in tents. Why not let them come to Michigan?
That might solve several problems for the Haitians, but would that solve any problems for Michigans? Unless the feelings of houses in Detroit and Flint should enter the calculus here. If you throw a number of people who are only consuming housing but who come here without any skills to make a living, you’re not making the systemic changes you’d like to be making. You’re just giving Haitians houses, but it’s not like they’ll have the capability to earn income to pay the bills to keep these houses operational. I mean, maybe they’ll grind it out. But it’s more likely they’ll grind it out in ways that are not beneficial to the overall community. Even with Detroit/Flint’s low bar, they’ll still be a net drag on the local economy.
One or more of these is true of M.Y.:
- he has a genocidal hate for whites
- he has a homoerotic love for blacks
- he is a high-functioning retard
he’s been jumped by groups of blacks more than once. i really don’t think he has any great love for blacks; he just doesn’t want to make the connection everyone else would normally make. i think the fourth option is that he’s just an unmitigated utopian idealist. he’d sacrifice his personal well-being for the kumbaya tingle of others. as a writer/intellectual/pundit, he gains something from diversity and multiculturalism that others who deal directly with the same fallout don’t also gain. he at least gets paid for trumpeting urban diversity. that helps assuage the physical or psychical wounds he might suffer. something workaday joes who confront similar situations don’t gain from.
pretty hilarious that slate assigns someone whose only income ever in his life has come from left wing bloviating to “cover business”
yglesias got knock out king-ed and blamed it on some weird development policy quirk… he’s an aspergery “progressive” nerd… meaning he dogmatically believes all the ideas that were really cutting edge in the late 1800s
That’s up there with his evergreen suggestion to “just give free money to poor people.”
anonymous:
great memory. i wrote about it but forgot his particular argument.
http://glpiggy.net/2011/09/27/squishy-liberals-being-attacked-in-d-c/
so a high level of density fosters an environment where your white ass gets knocked the fuck out, but a really, really high level of urban density solves the problem. no wonder he’s all gung ho about QE3 and QE4 and QE27. it’s not enough until it’s really really really enough.
Has Yglesias ever offered any Haitians a chance to put the tent in his yard or maybe even live at his place? I didn’t think so. And it is a shame that he never took a real, permanent lesson from his assault.
Permanent lesson? It’s a shame he didn’t take permanent brain damage.
i don’t want to be a faggot, but people from michigan are called michiganders.
Man can’t coons do anything right? Why could they kill M.Y playing K.O. King?
Maybe the people in Detroit would prefer the houses be knocked down and the properties left as open space. That’s probably what I would want if I lived there. Since it’s their town, let them decide.
Reading comments like this one, really does make me think that a lot of Jews have it in for people like me.
I have no trouble believing Yglesias is a homosexual, based on that video you once posted of him. I’m saying he is, it just wouldn’t surprise me. He didn’t come across as masculine. Gay men probably do have a different idea of community, and that needs to be taken into consideration.
@ hc
how could anyone tell if that happened?
Relocate Haitians to inner city Detroit? Seriously?
He definitely has brain damage. Even the most fanciful of liberal blank slate do-gooders I know would never suggest that.
MY has a great idea
if we allow Hatiians to come to Michigan then they will enrich the land by making less white. this is so desrieable that anyone who oppses it must some sort of white supremacist
if things so not work out on flint then the settlers can go to the liliy white subburbs and take what is thier due
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The best way to think about people like Matty Yglesias is not to.
Like Lara, I also suspect he’s gay. Which is fine by me. The last thing we need is nincompoops like him reproducing.
Matt Yglesias wants to relocated Haitians to inner city Detroit. Yglesias must really hate Hatians.
Promoting Justice, I’m your huckleberry.
@ Promoting Justice: it’s pronounced ” measures IS being taken.” Gnomesaying?
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