What I’m wondering is when exactly do these people think San Francisco of all places got ruined by progressive politics? Six decades ago it was already the hippie Mecca.
I’m not saying SF is a bastion of radical left or anything, but it’s reputation as one of the more progressive cities in the US goes back further than the idea of Silicon Valley, or Bay Area as a high tech hub in general.
Always the same thing with fascists, imagining some mythical prelapsarian past where SF was trad and based and everything was great.
It’s not like you don’t have plenty of options for more conservative cities to compare. But if any of this was based in facts, rightoids wouldn’t need to play pretend with these bizarre descriptions of cities like Portland or Stockholm as blazing warzones.
Thanks for that. Really sheds light on the land of contrasts that is San Francisco.
It’s easy to forget just how recent the spillover of SV to SF is, and that these tech giants are somehow still viewing themselves as the same scrappy countercultural garage firms they were in the 70s and 80s.
What I’m wondering is when exactly do these people think San Francisco of all places got ruined by progressive politics? Six decades ago it was already the hippie Mecca.
I’m not saying SF is a bastion of radical left or anything, but it’s reputation as one of the more progressive cities in the US goes back further than the idea of Silicon Valley, or Bay Area as a high tech hub in general.
Always the same thing with fascists, imagining some mythical prelapsarian past where SF was trad and based and everything was great.
It’s not like you don’t have plenty of options for more conservative cities to compare. But if any of this was based in facts, rightoids wouldn’t need to play pretend with these bizarre descriptions of cities like Portland or Stockholm as blazing warzones.
Just found this opinion piece about SF history
https://www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v46/n03/rebecca-solnit/in-the-shadow-of-silicon-valley
Thanks for that. Really sheds light on the land of contrasts that is San Francisco.
It’s easy to forget just how recent the spillover of SV to SF is, and that these tech giants are somehow still viewing themselves as the same scrappy countercultural garage firms they were in the 70s and 80s.
@bitofhope@awful.systems the Californian Ideology is also a good read.