OK, admittedly the first line [this took place in Britain, by the way] is funny:
A café which serves only breakfast cereal was targeted by anti-gentrification protesters wielding sticks, stones and flaming torches and wearing pig masks.
…but here’s the thing: you should be on the side of the hipsters on this one. The protesters went on to say this:
A Facebook statement said: “Our communities are being ripped apart – by Russian oligarchs, Saudi Sheiks, Israeli scumbag property developers, Texan oil-money t***s and our own home-grown Eton toffs…
Anti-Semitism just ruins everything, huh? Mind you, I’m not exceedingly fond of either the Russian or the Saudi Arabian ruling classes, but taking out your dislike of oil producers and the Jooooooooos on some guys who have figured out how to monetize eating breakfast cereal for dinner is a bit much. Because, let’s be honest: the hipster restaurateurs are at least getting money back into circulation. Without breaking other people’s stuff in the process.
Or, again, ranting about the Jooooooooos. Sorry, that just bugs me. It’s so diagnostic for the likely presence of a bunch of other nasty behaviors…
Moe Lane
Anti-gentrification protesters = this is our squalid, blighted slum, we are proud of that, and we’ll make sure you know!