Comments on: The most dangerous block in Logan Circle http://dcentric.wamu.org/2010/11/the-most-dangerous-block-in-logan-circle/ Race, Class, The District. Mon, 16 Jul 2012 03:01:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: Joe Vaughan http://dcentric.wamu.org/2010/11/the-most-dangerous-block-in-logan-circle/#comment-1344 Joe Vaughan Thu, 22 Mar 2012 04:47:00 +0000 http://dcentric.wamu.org/?p=2090#comment-1344 By far the most violent element in Logan Circle are the cowardly, belligerent heterosexual yuppies men. They are constantly slamming into older, weaker, and queerer looking people and forcing them off sidewalks. If you stand up to them, they threaten to kill you, then attack you from behind in gangs.  They are scum. Until they learn the meaning of fear, nobody is safe. The gay men around Logan Circle should have noticed by now how surrounded they are.  I heard one of these stroller Nazis stand up in a meeting and give a speech about how the people with children are taking over and the rest of us had better shut our mouths and do as we're told. "Thinks aren't the way they were a few years ago and you had better get used to it."  Meaning, suck it up fags, y'all are on the way OUT. Do you want to bet that these "gentry" are behind a good part of the anti-gay violence?  I wouldn't bet against you. But the illusion of safety among the 1%--an abiding dream of gay men--is so strong that gay people would rather kiss the feet of these parasitic bullying whoremongers than seek solidarity with ordinary human beings. So embrace racism and classism with all your hearts, boys.  You yourselves will lose your homes to these filthy bastards--and perhaps at a loss if you moved in within the last five years or so.  Then whom will you spit at? I sat in Logan Circle park tonight and watched SEVEN cop cars converge on one broken-hearted old guy about my age who was drunk and crying because he was homeless. Seven swaggering Nazi pigs on one harmless old fuck who had a half-empty can of beer. The previous Saturday I took a walk up Fourteenth Street around ten thirty and saw fifteen or twenty loudmouthed Yuppie alcoholics staggering from side to side of the street  ten times as looped as my hapless old pal.  Not a cop car in sight. All of them should have been arrested. This is Logan Circle.  It's the Third Reich.  It stinks like shit.  Something will have to be done about it, one way or another. By far the most violent element in Logan Circle are the cowardly, belligerent heterosexual yuppies men. They are constantly slamming into older, weaker, and queerer looking people and forcing them off sidewalks. If you stand up to them, they threaten to kill you, then attack you from behind in gangs.  They are scum. Until they learn the meaning of fear, nobody is safe.

The gay men around Logan Circle should have noticed by now how surrounded they are.  I heard one of these stroller Nazis stand up in a meeting and give a speech about how the people with children are taking over and the rest of us had better shut our mouths and do as we’re told. “Thinks aren’t the way they were a few years ago and you had better get used to it.”  Meaning, suck it up fags, y’all are on the way OUT.

Do you want to bet that these “gentry” are behind a good part of the anti-gay violence?  I wouldn’t bet against you.

But the illusion of safety among the 1%–an abiding dream of gay men–is so strong that gay people would rather kiss the feet of these parasitic bullying whoremongers than seek solidarity with ordinary human beings.

So embrace racism and classism with all your hearts, boys.  You yourselves will lose your homes to these filthy bastards–and perhaps at a loss if you moved in within the last five years or so.  Then whom will you spit at?

I sat in Logan Circle park tonight and watched SEVEN cop cars converge on one broken-hearted old guy about my age who was drunk and crying because he was homeless. Seven swaggering Nazi pigs on one harmless old fuck who had a half-empty can of beer.

The previous Saturday I took a walk up Fourteenth Street around ten thirty and saw fifteen or twenty loudmouthed Yuppie alcoholics staggering from side to side of the street  ten times as looped as my hapless old pal.  Not a cop car in sight. All of them should have been arrested.

This is Logan Circle.  It’s the Third Reich.  It stinks like shit.  Something will have to be done about it, one way or another.

]]> By: DCentric Fan http://dcentric.wamu.org/2010/11/the-most-dangerous-block-in-logan-circle/#comment-130 DCentric Fan Tue, 16 Nov 2010 19:56:00 +0000 http://dcentric.wamu.org/?p=2090#comment-130 This was a pretty interesting and sad piece about the state of the District. In the same way it was depressing it was intriguing on a social level. Moving back to the District a little over a year ago from the South, it was intriguing to see the black and seemingly gay youth in the popular hang-outs of teens around the area. Perhaps this is more of something that was always there and never noticed when I previously lived in the area, but I have assumed this is a growing and vibrant demographic. With all that and assuming that the teens and young adults live in the District or the immediate surrounding areas, I would have thought tolerance would have grown for the gay community as a whole. I wonder how the assailants would view gay friends and families of their own race (sense race seemed to be a theme in the attacks)? Then again a lot of bigotry and racism seems to have been based around groups striking out at those who they feel took something from them as a whole (or whoever is convenient) and not necessarily grounded in some logical analysis of what or who can change things. It would have been interesting if the writer could have found someone to talk to, who could give some insight into the perceptions/justifications (if any) of the assailants. Overall interesting read. This was a pretty interesting and sad piece about the state of the District. In the same way it was depressing it was intriguing on a social level. Moving back to the District a little over a year ago from the South, it was intriguing to see the black and seemingly gay youth in the popular hang-outs of teens around the area. Perhaps this is more of something that was always there and never noticed when I previously lived in the area, but I have assumed this is a growing and vibrant demographic. With all that and assuming that the teens and young adults live in the District or the immediate surrounding areas, I would have thought tolerance would have grown for the gay community as a whole. I wonder how the assailants would view gay friends and families of their own race (sense race seemed to be a theme in the attacks)? Then again a lot of bigotry and racism seems to have been based around groups striking out at those who they feel took something from them as a whole (or whoever is convenient) and not necessarily grounded in some logical analysis of what or who can change things. It would have been interesting if the writer could have found someone to talk to, who could give some insight into the perceptions/justifications (if any) of the assailants. Overall interesting read.

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