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I listened to the very end of the “Future of SF” Clubhouse tonight (after Chesa left, sadly!), then I tuned into the “Future of SF means make SF more white” room, which was notably almost exclusively Black and POC speakers who grew up in the Fillmore and Bayview Hunters Point.
Two worlds!!! My god
Tempted to host a Clubhouse room someday that is a safe space for tech people to ask questions about how the mechanics of govt work... because, man oh man, do some people love just making shit up or ignoring noncontroversial facts about our history and how laws work
Update: spoke on a much friendlier late night Clubhouse room briefly about why SF politics is complicated, sticky, messy, frustrating, mean. Mostly tech people who were uncomfortable and/or still processing the earlier conversations.
Told folks to start by researching the history and politics of their neighborhood — specifically the people who’ve lived there over different time periods, and why waves of migration did/didn’t happen.
Told folks that tech often represents economic injustice to longtime San Franciscans who have been boxed out from sharing in that wealth & access to it, but also that tech workers themselves aren’t the problem by default — and can be a partner in repairing these injustices!
I also reassured folks that people outside of tech aren’t thinking about hating tech people 100% of the time, not even the haters in City Hall, not even the majority of the time, and literally never in Sacramento.
This is not a hole you can’t climb out of. It’s barely a hole!
This is not a hole you can’t climb out of. It’s barely a hole!
(Everyone has other shit to do, and the city’s politics is defined by things way messier and older and decentralized than “pro vs. anti software industry”)
