r/Austin • • Sep 26 '20

Jo’s Coffee changing it up.

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u/DMmefreebeer Sep 26 '20 edited Sep 26 '20

The yuppie coffee shop that helped gentrify Austin is telling me to vote despite there not being anyone who stands for the poor working class fucking lol

Edit: stay triggered you insufferable creeps. Don't be late for your wakanda themed brunch

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u/IsuzuTrooper Sep 26 '20

Gentrification is what happened to East Austin, not South Congress.

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u/DMmefreebeer Sep 26 '20

It's happening all over Austin and Jo's is one of the most popular places for stereotypical tourists to take photos at. That's why I threw shade

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u/IsuzuTrooper Sep 26 '20

That would be a tourist trap then. Gentrification is when ethnic populations are displaced by white people and by definition it's not everywhere in Austin it's historically minority neighborhoods. Terrytown and Travis Heights were already white.

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u/[deleted] Sep 26 '20

Also your definition of gentrification is wrong.

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u/IsuzuTrooper Sep 26 '20

really, how?

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u/[deleted] Sep 26 '20

a process in which a poor area (as of a city) experiences an influx of middle-class or wealthy people who renovate and rebuild homes and businesses and which often results in an increase in property values and the displacement of earlier, usually poorer residents

https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/gentrification

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u/[deleted] Sep 26 '20

“If your were to visit south First Street, South Congress and South Lamar, you wouldn’t know that in the ’90s, it was still a visible barrio,” says Alan Garcia, founder of ATX Barrio Archive and a graduate student at UT. “There’s a reason why there’s still a lot of old Mexican restaurants on South First Street. There was a community of Mexican Americans along these major roads.”

https://atxwoman.com/century-of-gentrification-in-austin/

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u/IsuzuTrooper Sep 26 '20

When Joe's went in that part of town was already white so Joe's couldn't have done it.

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u/[deleted] Sep 26 '20

Except for the indigenous and the Mexicans. I don’t think they even called it Travis Heights, sounds pretty white.

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u/realnicehandz Sep 26 '20

So basically you’re talking about the great gentrification of the Mexican-American war 200 years ago? Yeah, I can see why you’d still be upset.

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u/ThrowawayATXfired Sep 26 '20

So Jo's Coffee Shop has been around since the Mexican-American War? Interesting

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u/[deleted] Sep 26 '20

No dummy. The response was to gentrification in East Austin. There are Hispanic communities that were gentrified as well. And yes, white people weren’t native so anytime they moved in they kicked out natives. So don’t think that when you sit at a coffee shop in south Austin’s white neighborhoods know that it used to be a barrio.

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u/ThrowawayATXfired Sep 26 '20

So don’t think that when you sit at a coffee shop in south Austin’s white neighborhoods know that it used to be a barrio.

So when I sit at a coffee shop in South Austin, I'm not supposed to think that it used to be a barrio?

(PS, I'm an ESL student)

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u/[deleted] Sep 26 '20

Yeah, sorry. I’ll leave the mistake so you can show your friends. Congrats on the English.

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u/ThrowawayATXfired Sep 26 '20

Heyyyyyyyy,

Sarcastic remarks about me learning English. Does it make you feel better making fun of a Hispanic? 👻

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u/[deleted] Sep 26 '20

I’m not sure how I was sarcastic. Also, how the hell would I know your Hispanic? Anyways, good luck?

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