I remember during the mid 80s there was “white flight”–white people leaving neighborhoods that gained minorities. That was labeled as racist. Today, there’s “gentrification”–white people moving into minority neighborhoods is considered racist. Regardless your feelings on gentrification in principle, but it quite looks to me that white people are literally damned if they do, damned if they don’t.

allronix:

There was a joke from MAD Magazine back in the day that was about the right-wing version of it. 

Bigot: There goes the neighborhood.

Neighbor: Why? 

Bigot: Oh, that immigrant family moving into that big fancy house up the street. they’ll likely trash the place and use it as a flophouse.

Neighbor: Have you SEEN them? The father just got hired to manage the factory up the road. The mother is a pediatrician and their eldest is in law school, studying business law. 

Bigot: Oh, so they’re just here for our jobs

Now the only difference between this and the leftie version 

stopmakingliberalslookbad:

This is true.

Bigot: There goes the neighborhood.

Neighbor: Why?

Bigot: Bunch of lazy hipsters going where they don’t belong and trying to turn our homes into clones of their fancy suburb. 

Neighbor: Have you SEEN them? The father is a construction foreman on that affordable housing project. The mother is a pediatrician and their eldest is in law school, studying to be an anti-discrimination lawyer. 

Bigot: Oh, so they’ll just jack up the rent and force all of us out.

There is no pleasing a bigot. And it does not matter if the bigot is a right wing or left wing one. Nothing you say or do is ever going to be the right option.