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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/

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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.

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