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Originally Posted by someone123
The joke on here has been that they should be called the "Halifax Coalition for Poverty". There's a lot of fighting over entitlements for various groups in the North End, but there seems to be comparatively little emphasis on questioning why the people are there in the first place or how they could be made self-sufficient. I think it's a bad thing that Uniacke Square has become so generational, and that there is such a strong line drawn in the sand between those who supposedly should be getting handouts and the supposed gentrifiers. The low-end Theatre Lofts condos started at like $170,000. They aren't for scary come-from-away (in this case maybe meaning 10 blocks away) millionaires.
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And, not to dogpile on them too much, but many of them are not even the true-blue North Enders they claim to speak for. A lot are suburb-raised 20-somethings indulging in some poverty tourism, and speaking on behalf of an entire community, not all of whom appreciate it. It's true, I don't think they'd really like to end poverty--there's a certain strain of hardcore activist who sees poverty as an exalted state (unlike the corrupted rich or deluded middle class, etc.)
I'm getting close to making a straw-man argument here, but I'm a leftie, and move in leftie circles, and every now and then run into people with that kind of weird attitude. Not just a North End thing, of course, or a Halifax thing. Everywhere.