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"Another Weaver resident voiced more generalized criticism, calling the event a 'display of toxic masculinity.'"

> “[W]e should shut this thing down,” a third resident, who blamed the lack of police response on the “idiotic” city council’s decision to slash the Austin Police Department’s budget, wrote in March on a building forum.

Turns out partisan ideologies are flexible enough to justify the same class preferences.

This is really depressing... It's like there's no escaping this type of mentality anywhere in the U.S. I'm currently in the process of leaving California. I won't miss it at all I'm afraid.

There is, just don't move to urban areas if you want to avoid it.

The problem is that the urban areas move (or rather spread), and eventually encroach on the surrounding countryside.

I thought you were joking until I read the article. That's not a thing I've ever seen in Austin's culture, indeed a transplant.

In general, I find that a somewhat overused trope, and I'm particularly suspicious when it's weaponized by gentrifiers, but if you look at the rims on the car at the top of the article and the burnout later on, maybe in this case, there may be a kernel of truth to "display of toxic masculinity".

I like gadgets, and I can understand why people would want to enjoy them and show them off and I think that there should be space in society for that, but those rims and the burnouts seem to be designed to aggressively "claim space" at the expense of others.

It sounds like you're completely mystified by a sub-culture you have little to no exposure to.

Like most people who have lived anywhere close to navigable roads in the last century, I've had my share of exposure to various motorization centric subcultures.

But it's not really a matter of understanding subcultures, it's drawing a line between letting somebody exercise their rights, and that exercise impinging on other people's rights.

You don't need a chemistry degree to complain about your neighbor running a selenophenol synthesis in his backyard. You don't need to study the history of Jazz before complaining about them blasting Yamataka Eye at 3AM.

There may be a kernel of truth that the residents moving in are displaying "toxic leftism".

There's nothing "leftist" about pompous, anti-working class people.

Unironically saying "toxic masculinity" is definitely leftist.

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