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raycarey

boonie, you've already been told....pajama clad bloggers need not apply. even though you habitually attempt to disguise the source, all anyone has to do is roll their cursor over the link.

and let's just take a look at what you posted....

my guess at what the 'facts' really are----over the last 35 years a significant percentage of african americans have moved out of the incredibly expensive SF for the outlying suburbs..... and somehow your blogger has made the absurd leap that the people of SF 'hate black folks'.

keep trying booner.

Boon Mee

Well, one of 'em is USA Today -

San Francisco hopes to reverse black flight - USATODAY.com

ray - the inference is SF values don't jive with Blacks. You certainly can be pedantic about these small points!

AntRobertson

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Originally Posted by Boon Mee Well, one of 'em is USA Today -

That article mentions nothing about "San Francisco values", whatever those are, it does however specify a number of factors:

-Soaring rents;
-Home ownership prospects;
-Safer neighborhoods;
-Better schooling.

So basically a number of factors most of which can be economically linked. Nothing more than a microcosm of what is happening across the US, albeit at a higher rate, and certainly not peculiar to San Francisco or "San Francisco values"... whatever those are.

raycarey

but for boonie's heroes in the pajama clad blogging community, apparently these are the same things as 'hating blacks'.



i'm sure you can't be bothered to read this entire absurd thread, but it was revealed that the guy boonie started this thread about was actually from NJ.

Boon Mee

And the scene of the crime was where?
SF Values are a well-known 'sub-culture' within the US...

raycarey

if i remember correctly....a mentally ill guy from NJ got on a plane and committed a crime in SF---if that's all you need to come to the conclusion that it somehow represents the 'values' of the people of SF, then so be it.

Boon Mee

And do you recall what that 'crime' was?
Assulting a Nobel Peace Prize winner who also just happened to be a Joooo. This 'crime' followed an incident where a choral group (Christian if I recall) were also assaulted for singing the National Anthem in...guess where?

It's a repeated pattern y'all on the left refuse to see...

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AntRobertson

Ahhh I see... so "San Franciso Values" are something that Booners simply made up/invented from thin air, undefined and applied arbitrarily and selectively.

Almost makes sense in a weird, twisted-Booners-logic, kinda way.

Boon Mee

Au contraire there ant - man!
Google is your friend - check it out...

AntRobertson

Oh I do beg your pardon, my humble apologies. I hereby retract my above statement and replace it with the following:

Ahhh I see... so "San Francisco Values" is something that Booners simply plagiarized, has not defined because he didn't read that far into the blog, and applys arbitrarily and selectively.

Boon Mee

Bullshit...again.
You obviously can't comprehend simple English there ant. If you had 1/2 a brain you might have noted there are multiple references to SF Values cited as it is part of the culture war going on in America.

Got a suggestion: Stick to stuff you might have a clue about and let raycary handle the US topics?

AntRobertson

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Originally Posted by Boon Mee If you had 1/2 a brain you might have noted there are multiple references to SF Values cited as it is part of the culture war going on in America.

Well I have a full brain. Which is why I noted references to it, one of the first of which discussed that it was a hitherto undefined label that had been tossed around by conservative commentators, notably Bill O'Reilly.

So, like I already said, so "San Francisco Values" is something that you simply plagiarized, have not defined because you didn't read that far into the blog, and apply arbitrarily and selectively.

This is something you may have noticed yourself if your brain were capable of processing information and disseminating it, rather than just the cut 'n paste parroting of others thoughts.

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You obviously can't comprehend simple English there ant

Call my intelligence into question all you like Booners. Ever heard the adage 'give him enough rope and he'll hang himself'?

Boon Mee

Not so there anti - SF Values has been and continues to be what is defined as everything is "valid life choices and it's nobobdy's business". In other words, the basic credo of 'Progressives' everywhere. The term 'SF Values' is now in the lexicon of everyday speech.

AntRobertson

No it's not. I'm well travelled and have met 'Progressives' from many different nations. Not a single one has espoused anything like what you are saying.

Again, I've not heard it uttered once.

Where's that quote from?

Milkman

I've never heard that term before.

Can you provide any article or links?

Sounds like a troll, to me.

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raycarey

taken from page one of this thread....

sabang

I don't hear anything about 'Texas values' or 'Okie values'. SF values is just a flippant label from a Right wing perspective on the ongoing moderate/liberal & conservative/Right debate so in vogue in the States these days. Not really worth arguing the semantics of it.

It's interesting to use the term 'SF values' as a putdown though, as San Fransisco and it's catchment area (such as Silicon Valley) are very valuable net contributors to America's economy, quite probably one of the most valuable per head 'net value added' regions in the USA.

Unsurprisingly, the region has high average education levels, and some fine universities such as Stanford and UCLA Berkeley. The self styled Conservative heartland doesn't think about that however- when they are spoonfed the "SF" term by their rightwing Spinmeisters, they robotically think 'Vietnam protests', Gay pride, campus demonstrations, flower power, free love and whatever else they are conditioned to fear and hate.

Kinda 'Summer of love' nostalgia, from people that missed out on it.

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AntRobertson

^^
One can't help but get the feeling that Booners distorts so many things he confuses himself. Bless.

Boon Mee

heh...it's the same as "if it feels good, do it" & "how come it's wrong when it feels so right". Sorry I can't provide a link to 'valid life choices...' but it's in the modern-day lexicon of speech amongst Progessives.

The reason we hear about 'SF Values' more so than say 'Texas Values' is the looney behaviour of a large majority of folks who live there. You could legimately make a case for 'Texas Values' in the pejoritive like more capitol punishment metted out etc but SF stands out w/respect to aberrant behavior.

AntRobertson

So in others words... you quoted something you claim to be in common usage and parlance yet, unable to actually provide much in the way of a source for such quote, all you have done is simply repeat it.

All that has been established here Booners is that you sure do like posting "San Francisco Values" even though you don't know what it means, probably read it somewhere once, 'adopted' it (I'm being kind there) and have parroted it since sans context.

"SFV" means precisely nothing because you apply it arbitrarily and ascribe equally arbitrary (and constantly changing) 'meaning' to it. It's no more meaningful than "ERDFDTTRTSSD".