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This is absolutely appalling that this is going on...I've never even heard or would fathom this in SF.

I was raised in San Francisco, right there on Mc Coppin and Market...smack damn in downtown. I've always known SF to be the most accepting and tolerant place I've lived in.

How could this type of prejudice go on in a city that allows nudes in parades, diversity in sexuality, and a bunch of 12 yr olds to run around downtown on Razor scooters at 3 in the morning.

I'm just speechless to hear this about my hometown.

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In the first dot com boom DIE YUPPIE SCUM was stencil painted on all the sidewalks in SoMa and the Mission, so nothing new...

http://www.salon.com/1999/10/29/yuppies/

That's crazy, although I was 11 when this was going on...so I'm guessing the eyes of a child may not be a great reference here.

What I do remember in 2000 when I was there....WebTV, WebVan, Yahoo Auctions, and having Lycos go fetch a search....that's when I was 12.

I do remember everyone had prejudice against the homeless, and I vaguely remember talk of trying to oust them.

It's because yuppies/techies don't like their poor and disadvantaged in their faces, they want them in clean well-lit community centers preferably located in minority areas far away from their adult playgrounds.

Or because "having the disadvantaged in their face" gives them problem to solve. I don't think you understand the difference between getting rid of homeless people, and trying to solve homelessness.

1998. Mission Yuppie Eradication Project.

http://foundsf.org/index.php?title=Mission_Yuppie_Eradicatio...

My problem is that it's going to target the wrong people. Low-level software engineers (who suffer the high rents like everyone else) are being lumped in with the douchebag underachievers whose boarding-school friends in VC handed them VP positions in startups (i.e. rich people welfare).

I stopped supporting violent revolution when I realized that it was the fringe of the elite (i.e. people like me) rather than the ones really in charge who tend to get killed.

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