re: Atlanta Gym - "No f------ cops allowed"

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Nope. You just don't get it. Your house, your boutique, your activism, your place in this community, and everything about you is an effect of your privilege. You bought it all. And you're not even remotely grateful for any of it, because you use your privilege to support being an abuser. You hurt your family, you're hurting your neighborhood, and you're hurting our city. All without any consequence. Except maybe for this thread, and any additional public shaming that's coming your way. You're just an a-hole. And you're not even an interesting one. Most of us who live in Grant Park, O4W, Kirkwood, etc - we work hard. Most of us were raised in middle class or lower class families, and through a lot of hard work we finally got to a place where we could buy a home, raise a family, maybe have a small business, and take some small steps to make life better. And then you come along, and you try to make things worse. You fund anti-cop protests. You harass the cops, in public. You distribute propaganda that leads to distrust and hostility between the police and the most vulnerable members of this community. I guess if things turn bad here, and the community becomes less safe because you got bored with being a do-nothing trust fund kid who wanted to be a "man of the people," you can pack up and move out. You can go back to Brooklyn or some other trust fund community that's kinder to people like you. We don't have this luxury. If things turn south here, and we wind up with real crime like in St. Louis/Ferguson or Baltimore as a result of the unrest you're trying to foment, we're on the hook for it. Not you. We didn't win the sperm lottery. Billions of dollars haven't landed on us by virtue of birth, allowing us to spend our days dicking-off with college protester kids. This is why people are angry. This is why you're probably going to wind up being covered by Gawker or Breitbart, why your boutique's customers are going vanish once they learn about your connection to it, and why you've been cut out of Barbell and why local artists like the Black Lips are starting to call you out. People have been robbed, stores have been burgled, and people have been hurt even in Virginia Highlands. And you're going to act like cops are the enemy? How many people who frequent stores along Highland are going to want to shop at your place when they find out you're trying to make them less safe? frick it. This is probably wasted on you. Someone stupid enough to hide behind his wife and use her "tears" as a shield, and demand that people leave every aspect of his privileged life alone so he can keep being a cancer on the community is probably too stupid to understand why people are so sick of his bullshite. But I tried. And of course you're "always open ears/emails/phones or coffee tables." You're an unemployed do-nothing trust fund turd. But thanks for the laugh. Instead of using that money to fund college kid protests and actions that make us all less safe, why don't you put some poor black kids through school, or renovate some houses? Be more like Jimmy Carter, or Bruce Wayne. If you hate yourself and your family, and want to rebel agaisnt them in the most tired fashion possible (Marx? Being a swinger? Are you trapped in the 50's, lol?) - maybe try to find a way to do it that doesn't sink our property values, hurt our kids' schools, or endanger us. Or grow the frick up and stop hating yourself and your family so much. Whatever they've done to you, it's not your fault. But it's definitely not ours, so stop making us pay for whatever angst and lack of imagination that's making you act like such an obnoxious prick.

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