Otherworldly Goods, Chapter 3 — Page 24
Fetch and Tara have some “philosophical differences” about property and the general nature of reality. Or reality of nature? Either way, each thinks the other is living in a fairy tale.
Speaking of the suburbs, the current president of my country has decided to “protect” suburbanites from people who use low-income housing — i.e., poor people, Black people, people of color, the disabled, and anyone else this fascist deems a threat to “property values.”
Suburbia is the flip-side to gentrification. Affluent white people will colonize your neighborhood and drive out the poor, but don’t dare move next door to them. They’ll sic the feds to whisk you away in an unmarked van.



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