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Fuck Gentrification - Join the Fuck Parade...Part 3!

The café owners seem to be oblivious of the politics and class-based nature of food consumption.

Why should they be? I'm not supporting their enterprise, but they are business people not sociologists, activists, etc.
 
Why should they be? I'm not supporting their enterprise, but they are business people not sociologists, activists, etc.

Most sensible businesses attempt to serve as broad a customer base as possible. That's nowt to do with sociology of activism, it's to do with maximising throughput and sales.
The Beardy Bros, on the other hand, have gone down the exclusivity route. One doesn't need to understand sociology to realise that in an economically divided locale, exclusivity may well make you a target fo r activism.
 
I see the next target have identified themselves...

Brick Lane Coffee shop comes under fire for 'No Poor People' sign

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That photo's 6 years old. Even google street view is more recent and representative than that. (St Georges Walk, Croydon, if anyone's interested).

It was a light hearted remark, I believe the whole place is getting bulldozed next year anyway.
 
It was a light hearted remark, I believe the whole place is getting bulldozed next year anyway.
Yep replacing the Whitgift Centre and all sorts of redevelopment. They're keeping Lunar House and Apollo House though apparently.
 
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