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bushwhack227 t1_jdgl591 wrote

Reply to comment by PhillyPete12 in Philadelphia pulls out of community litter cleanup program, Glitter by Easy-Reading

Phil Ochs was a leftist, not a conservative. The above quote was the intro to his song, "Love Me, I'm a Liberal" which is a leftist critique of liberals, in the same way leftists like Sanders are critical of Pelosi, for example.

The distinction between liberals and leftists is not something that's widely understood. I would argue liberals and conservative probably have more in common with each other than do liberals and leftists. Liberals, like conservatives, believe that capitalism can be used to solve all or most problems.

The best example is probably healthcare policy. The liberal solution is Obamcare, which is very much a market-based system. The leftist solution is Medicare for all at the very least, or even an NHS-style system where practitioners are either govt employees or essentially contractors.

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An_emperor_penguin t1_jdgg2w0 wrote

Reply to comment by Cobey1 in Black clergy and businesspeople support Sixers arena proposal by dc122186

There's potentially going to be a lot of black construction workers on this project, it would be odd that they would need this project specifically but the trades have stayed horrifically segregated; the post brothers got around using union labor for their The Poplar project by hiring minority laborers. So big projects like this are the only quick way to get black men into the construction jobs they've been kept out of.

>All of these big power players seem to be focused on this dumbass market east arena when they could invest the billions into disenfranchised communities like North, west, or SW Philly.

I think you're confused what's happening, this is a proposal for a basketball arena, not a charity project. They're willing to invest in center city because they will make money by doing so, building an arena in a bad spot will not make them money.

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rileybgone t1_jdgc3t1 wrote

Reply to comment by BureaucraticHotboi in Temple limits public access to food court following violent incidents by Sunset_Bleu

Yeah it's not a great thing but there's always a material explanation as to why thing are the way they are. And temple, while important, is currently functioning like a tumor. Devouring the neighborhood and providing little to nothing for the local working class. Maybe some okay paying jobs at best while not allowing any true upward mobility.

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BureaucraticHotboi t1_jdgbufs wrote

Reply to comment by rileybgone in Temple limits public access to food court following violent incidents by Sunset_Bleu

It’s also worth noting that prior to the riots after MLK was killed that area of North Philly was a thriving black owned commercial district. I lived near temple and older folks in the neighborhood told me how the city basically locked down the area and let the corridor that is now Cecil B Moore burn. It’s never recovered and many other policies contributed to its disinvestment. Now temple and the developers feeding off of its growing footprint are filling much of that void without offering much to the community. This doesn’t mean kids fighting in the food court are freedom fighters, it just adds context to the alienation and disinvestment that has lead the area to be so bad and the community to feel so at odds with the institution

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