How did Oakland become "Outrage Central"? (San Francisco, Hayward: school, college)

[Mouldy Old Schmo]

How did Oakland become a city known for angry leftist (or "progressive", if that is your favored term) activism?

[Gentoo]

Originally Posted by Mouldy Old Schmo

How did Oakland become a city known for angry leftist (or "progressive", if that is your favored term) activism?

They got priced out of Berkeley and San Francisco.

[Ruth4Truth]

Since the Black Panthers? Since when hasn't Oakland been militant?

[Mouldy Old Schmo]

According to Wikipedia, the migration of black and white Southerners to work at the Kaiser Shipyards during World War Two increased racial tensions.

[18Montclair]

It's not that Oakland suddenly became outraged. It's that too many people elsewhere have resigned themselves to simply conform.

[ccm123]

It's part of the Bay Area, right?

[Mack Knife]

Originally Posted by 18Montclair

It's not that Oakland suddenly became outraged. It's that too many people elsewhere have resigned themselves to simply conform.

Hardly. Not breaking into stores and smashing things up at every news story opportunity, not shooting people on sight because they wear certain colors, not hustling drugs anywhere and everywhere is not conforming, it is called being civilized, something which a large percentage of Oakland is not.

Being outraged does not mean killing others, damaging the very stores that sustain people with jobs, services and goods, attacking those who just happen to walk or drive down a street. That is called jungle society. Jungles are isolated from civilization for a reason. The problem with the jungles in Oakland is that the Tigers were removed. The Tigers got rid of the lesser predators so they became the common threat to everyone else. The Tigers had rules and for the most part didn't bother anyone, satisfied to once in a while culling a lesser predator, the kind that bother everyone.

The jungle is growing, not getting smaller. It has already grown into San Leandro, Union City, Hayward, Castro Valley and on down. It can't go north because if the lesser predators step on a billboard put up by an anti big company activist, all rules go out and the troops come in to clean house.

Instead, the lesser predators are now flooding into San Rafael and Marin. Sausalito is about to be encircled and limited to ingress and egress through checkpoints. Downtown San Rafael looks like parts of Oakland not too long ago, basically a boarded up main street.

[justinbro2002]

These protesters are a mixture of pseudo intellectual types, slackers still living in their parents house, angry minorities who claim the system is against them and keeping them down {yet they don't mind when the system heads them a welfare check every month) and college kids who are sad missed the 60's

[jade408]

There is a history of militants, but they weren't trying to proactively batter unaffected businesses.

These new school "protesters" are just there to cause destruction because of permissive policies by the mayors. The rights of the troublemakers are ahead of the rights of everyone else to protest peacefully.

It gives legitimate protesters a bad name and paints Oakland as business unfriendly. The bad PR makes it difficult to open a business in DTO. notice they never hit Rockridge or Piedmont Ave or Grand Lake. It is exclusively downtown, where businesses need to work extra hard to find customers. Lots more newbie and small business owners as well. The ones who can least afford constant purposeless destruction.


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[jade408]

Originally Posted by Mack Knife

Hardly. Not breaking into stores and smashing things up at every news story opportunity, not shooting people on sight because they wear certain colors, not hustling drugs anywhere and everywhere is not conforming, it is called being civilized, something which a large percentage of Oakland is not.

Being outraged does not mean killing others, damaging the very stores that sustain people with jobs, services and goods, attacking those who just happen to walk or drive down a street. That is called jungle society. Jungles are isolated from civilization for a reason. The problem with the jungles in Oakland is that the Tigers were removed. The Tigers got rid of the lesser predators so they became the common threat to everyone else. The Tigers had rules and for the most part didn't bother anyone, satisfied to once in a while culling a lesser predator, the kind that bother everyone.

The jungle is growing, not getting smaller. It has already grown into San Leandro, Union City, Hayward, Castro Valley and on down. It can't go north because if the lesser predators step on a billboard put up by an anti big company activist, all rules go out and the troops come in to clean house.

Instead, the lesser predators are now flooding into San Rafael and Marin. Sausalito is about to be encircled and limited to ingress and egress through checkpoints. Downtown San Rafael looks like parts of Oakland not too long ago, basically a boarded up main street.

These "protesters" come from out of town to bust windows in Oakland.

Most people in Oakland, like everywhere else are normal. Troublemakers have an outsized impact on Oakland.


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