Lower Haight-based blog anadromy relates a tale:
I live in an historically African-American neighborhood. Unfortunately, the “historically” part of that phrase is becoming more and more the reality but it is still one of the last predominantly black neighborhoods in central San Francisco and to my chagrin I just walked by some motherfucker in an NYPD sweatshirt. It’s a nice day and I was in a really good mood coming back from the gym listening to cumbia music on my iPod and enjoying the sunshine so it didn’t register at first but as I passed this clueless dweeb I got pretty angry and stared at him with naked disapproval.
Maybe it was an NYPD Pizza sweatshirt?
Read on for the dramatic conclusion.
I disapprove of the logo on a person’s sweatshirt, unsuccessfully try to shame them through furtive dirty looks, harbor fantasies of them being assaulted, and then blog to no one about it.
I am San Francisco.
I wear my Space Camp sweatshirt in a historically earthbound neighborhood all the time, should I be concerned that people are making mean tumblr posts about me?
I am sure this same individual is aghast at the attacks that occurred in France.
Having a conversation with someone, if you really feel like you must, is certainly an appropriate way to deal with the issues brought up by wearing an NYPD sweatshirt. Physical violence is not.
Was it ever cool to wear cop gear?
NYPD? After 9/11, it was. How soon we forget. Or deny. Or are too young to remember.
Not saying I would do it, but it was a thing.
Cops doing their jobs? (Firemen, too). I mean it’s great they did, but did you expect them to flee the city?
I’m definitely old enough but not dumb enough to have that that was “cool”
Thought*
Lol, def dumb enough to make that typo
Dumb enough to miss the point of my comment, too. Or too deep in denial about lots of people thinking it was cool to wear that stuff.
Or you missed my usage of cool, and confused it for “acceptable” but go on.
Or you think that “cool” is some kind of arbitrary standard, some eternal Platonic ideal that applies to everybody the same.
Eh, tools/people politicizing 9/11 don’t dictate what’s cool, they tend to consume it. Everyone knows POC do that, and pretty sure we’ve never been COOL with cops.
Shallow, troll.
short answer: No.
Doktor gets it
Doktor gets nothing but a hard-on from hearing the echo of his voice.
Definitely. If there’s one thing people are always saying about me, it’s how much I crave other people’s agreement.
Says the person that doesn’t even live here who happens to post more than HDPDV….
I lived there longer than most of you punks have been alive. Earned the right to be interested, if I want.
Awfully defensive for someone not from here nor residing here, lol
Where do you get all the stuff you’re reading into my comments? Awfully defensive for a troll! I thought you clowns had hides of steel.
Go on…
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Pretty sure he’s just openly mocking you, Simon.
Shh, he doesn’t realize there’s more than one meaning of “cool” or “troll”
Naw, Prof, that’s your schtick. He’s just run out of things to say and now he’s dropping leaden non sequiturs into the mix, trying to get the last word.
You sure about that?
If you were in the SF band Crime in the late 70s, it was.
Who is this loser ranting against an NYPD shirt? I hope to hell he never calls the police for help.
I think it’s time for my LAPD sweatshirt take a trip to lower Haight.
I wrote the blog in question. I don’t reread or edit the stuff I write on there at all because it’s usually lighthearted, absurd and / or too personal for anyone to give a shit about. I wish I had reread and edited the second-to-last sentence of that post before I put it up. I didn’t mean to advocate or endorse violence against the guy wearing the sweatshirt. It was a stupid thing to write. My apologies.