Funny that he's decrying refugees for adding some spice to the local life (pun intended) as "gentrification" when his timeline is the most middle class Waitrose-esque word salad tosh you can imagine.
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The exploited migrant employees are fine with me. They're not doing anything wrong. But, as I said, the asshole who owns the "pop up" is a gentrifying piece of shit. As I said, by definition.
aug 30, 2025, 7:52 pm • 0 0 • view
In the world we were meant to live in, these poor people would have an actual restaurant, like, in a permanent building. Instead, you guys are defending them being shuttled around in some kind of godforsaken mobile sweatshop. Oh, but I'M the asshole, for pointing this out.
aug 30, 2025, 7:52 pm • 0 0 • view
You have proof that someone is exploiting them? That it isn’t something like this: www.refugeecouncil.org.uk/stay-informe... Or this guy? www.mylondon.news/whats-on/foo... Are they “gentrifiers”?
aug 30, 2025, 8:21 pm • 1 0 • view
And you can prove one of these guys is behind this pop up in question? Go ahead. Offer such proof.
aug 30, 2025, 8:24 pm • 0 0 • view
I’m not the one making allegations. Are those people exploitative gentrifiers?
aug 30, 2025, 8:26 pm • 2 0 • view
No. Obviously not. This conversation obviously got WAY out of hand. I also may be engaging in some cross-cultural assumptions. On the USA side of the pond, anyone who opens a pop-up shop of any kind IS generally what y'all would call a "posh wanker." Maybe it's not that way on your side.
aug 30, 2025, 8:29 pm • 0 0 • view
i appreciate you saying that. Some pop ups are rip offs by the kind of people others love to hate. Others are a great way for people to try running a food business.
aug 30, 2025, 8:33 pm • 1 0 • view
Being middle class isn’t an insult to me. All my grandparents were refugees. Inverse snobbery is still snobbery. Take people for who they are, not where they were born or how you assume they are…
aug 30, 2025, 5:53 pm • 1 0 • view
More in the sense that he's acting exactly like the "posh gentrifiers" he decries.
aug 30, 2025, 6:03 pm • 1 0 • view
It’s all just bonkers gatekeeping.
aug 30, 2025, 6:25 pm • 1 0 • view