Good day all. Once again, the over-educated and under medicated morons of academia have opened their mouths and inserted their feet. We now have some blithering idiot claiming that farmers markets are racist.
Now for a few basics. Farmers markets are small areas set up in an urban environment, (That’s a city for those of you who don’t speak Progressive), where people can buy a large selection of produce, generally grown by small local farms. Anyone is welcome to shop here. However, there are a pair of moonbats who have decided that Farmers Markets are racist. Here are some of the details from Campus Reform:
Two San Diego State University (SDSU) professors recently criticized farmers’ markets for being “white spaces” that contribute to the oppression of minorities. Pascale Joassart-Marcelli and Fernando J Bosco, two geography professors at SDSU, criticized the “whiteness of farmers’ markets” in a chapter for Just Green Enough, a new anthology published by Routledge in December.
The anthology, which features contributions from a variety of professors, aims to highlight the harms of “environmental gentrification,” a process in which “environmental improvements lead to…the displacement of long-term residents.”
I’ve linked to the book in question. It’s overpriced, wildly, and is basically a series of essay’s by a bunch of idiots who have never worked a day in their lives in the “Dreaded Private Sector.” The problem here is systemic in the world of Academia. These failures need to publish papers and stories in order to show that they’re valuable people. Because of this, most of the “works” coming out of collages and universities would be perfect for farmers. Why?
Farmers’ markets are one such environmental improvement that can lead to gentrification, Bosco and Joassart-Marcelli argue, saying farmers’ markets are “exclusionary” since locals may not be able to “afford the food and/or feel excluded from these new spaces.”
The people selling at farmers markets flat out don’t care about anyone’s skin tone, religion or eye shape. They’re there to sell stuff and make money. Granted, it can be overpriced, but that’s what you can expect from low volume specialty farms. They tend to grow things for the local market that the big agribiz farms don’t.
This social exclusion is reinforced by the “whiteness of farmers’ markets” and the “white habitus” that they can reinforce, the professors elaborate, describing farmers’ markets as “white spaces where the food consumption habits of white people are normalized.”
This is a paradoxical outcome, since farmers’ markets are often established in the interest of fighting so-called “food deserts” in lower-income and minority communities. Since grocery stores in low-income communities often lack fresh quality produce, the professors say that in some cases, farmers’ markets may be only source of quality and affordable produce for locals.
Citing research they conducted in San Diego, however, Bosco and Joassart-Marcelli claim that 44 percent of the city’s farmers’ markets are located in census tracts with a high rate of gentrification, leading them to conclude that farmers’ markets “attract households from higher socio-economic backgrounds, raising property values and displacing low-income residents and people of color.”
Two things. First, where are the other 66 percent of the markets located? By chance, would they be located in areas with low income customers? Second, these are small farmers. They want to do something that is generally a totally alien concept to people like these to idiots. They want to make money. As to your “research? Don’t make me laugh! If you tried submitting this drivel for academic review, you would be quickly shown the door.
“The most insidious part of this gentrification process is that alternative food initiatives work against the community activists and residents who first mobilized to fight environmental injustices and provide these amenities but have significantly less political and economic clout than developers and real estate professionals.
The professors stop short of offering specific remedies, but do conclude that “curbing gentrification is a vexing task” that requires the involvement of both community members and local governments.
Here it comes!
“Strong community involvement,” they say, is necessary in order to ensure that “the needs of the poorest…residents are prioritized,” while local governments can enact “equitable zoning policies, rent-control laws, and property tax reforms in favor of long-time homeowners” to combat the trend toward gentrification.
“Ultimately,” they conclude, countering gentrification “requires slow and inclusive steps that balance new initiatives and neighborhood stability to make cities ‘just green enough.’”
So, in in the typical way of White Progressive Moonbats, they want to keep people in ghettos, and they want to use the power of the government to keep those “Dirty ignorant savages” away from the every so “socially minded justice warriors” as they work to rid the world of all racism, except their own. The sad thing is, these ignorant moonbats can’t seem to understand that they are no different then the old southern, slave owning plantation owners. It’s just that they want to keep the unwashed masses out of their plantations…except when they need the sheets washed, the bathrooms cleaned and the lawns mowed.
Thatisall
~The Angry Webmaster~
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