The New York Times readership ordinarily thinks soy lattes are a good thing. But they’re not so good when being served in trendy new coffee shops to the wrong kind of people– i.e. white people who can afford rapidly rising rents– in San Francisco’s Mission District.

The Mission prides itself on its working class residents, mostly (until recently) Mexican and Central American immigrants and their first-generation offspring. But neighborhoods change, especially in expensive progressive cities where every un-gentrified block is ripe for hipster takeover. And the Mission itself was once mostly Irish and Jewish before it was Hispanic. But having a bunch of rich white tech kids move in is really too much for the Times. The gentrifiers are “bleaching” the local culture.

Whites don’t bring diversity, I guess.

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