Monday, December 13, 2010
News What's So Bad About a Wal-Mart in East New York?
Posted by Mark Asch on Mon, Dec 13, 2010 at 4:21 PM
A Wal-Mart may come to East New York, the Daily News reports. Now, once more, without hipster backlash: Through the magic of "convenience" and artificially low price points backed by overly corporate-friendly American economic policies and environmentally irresponsible conveniences, chain stores parachute into neighborhoods, often impoverished ones, and create dependence, driving local business owners out of their storefronts and livelihoods, and eventually leaving nothing behind but grotesque and out-of-scale white elephant buildings.
God, everything's so much clearer when not freighted with the issues of race and class raised by gentrification.
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