18
Feb
ok, so my tumblr has now devolved into little more than self-indulgence for my severe berlinomania. god i miss that place! the following is from a recent guardian article about car burnings in the german capital and other left-wing efforts to stave off gentrification…
“A recent meeting at SO36 discussed non-violent ways to keep out “unwanted” residents. Erwin Riedmann, a sociologist, proposed an “uglification strategy” – to “go around wearing a ripped vest and hang food in Lidl bags from the balcony so that it looks like you don’t have a fridge”. The suggestion drew laughs, but is a strategy being adopted.
An “anti-schicki micki” website, esregnetkaviar.de (it’s raining caviar), offers the following tips to make a neighbourhood unattractive for newcomers: “Don’t repair broken windows; put foreign names on the doorbell, and install satellite dishes.”“
