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180 New Residents a Day and Gentrifiers Tweeting BLM
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Reading through the article's stats on Austin's growth, he mocks the influx of new residents, jokes about comedians moving in, and rips into gentrifiers who move into historically Black and Latino neighborhoods while posting progressive politics online.
- Austin receives 180 new residents a day, creating a housing crisis.
- Tim jokes that 60 of the 180 new arrivals are comedians.
- The transformation amounts to a massive gentrification project in the city.
- White people and white women are moving to historically Black and Latino neighborhoods for skyline views.
- Tim claims he has never displaced anyone in any city he's moved to.
- Comedy peers with progressive opinions online live in gentrified historically Black and Latino neighborhoods.
- They tweet Black Lives Matter from rooms where Black families used to live—a contradiction Tim identifies.
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