I used to chat with this gentleman (a white man born into old money on the Upper East Side) who used to tell me that this was going to happen within the next decade or so. He told me this around 2015 or 2016. He knew Politicians as well as many wealthy NYC socialites, and he said,
A. Racism is a lot less in your face here but it is here, as well as homophobia. Many of those rich white people on the Upper East Side consider themselves democrats/liberals but most of their logic is more Republican than they think. He said within the next decade we are going to see inflation and rent hikes, and people will think it’s not intentional but it is. He said since the 1970s, when white flight was prevalent in major cities the Government has been trying to find ways to “take back their cities” and push out low income, which are mostly POC. White people have the money in this country, and the mostly white government slowly has made sure to limit the increase of minimum wage while hiking prices to eventually be able to “take back the cities” and push out POC.
B. Women’s rights will be at risk. They want to overturn abortion rights as well as try to make it harder for women within certain careers. One thing he told me was most of those old white men have no respect for women and speak of them poorly behind their backs. Many believe the workplace was better when it was almost all men.
C. Gay rights. He predicted in 2015 that by the year 2030 gay rights would be back to the way they were in the past, aka illegal. He said Republicans would have gays vanish if they could and blame gays for everything that is wrong morally with the world, the way they blame blacks and Hispanics for all crime.
I always doubted this gentleman and I eventually stopped interacting with him because he would upset me at times because he was a man with resources and who claimed to know all of this but I felt he never did anything about it. Looking back, what could he have done? I was dumb. Also, I think he may have been more insightful than I believed.
I wonder what he’s up to now.
We actually met in person on accident and became buds and kept in touch. We then would speak daily about Politics, race relations, gender politics etc. one day I saw him on Grindr and messaged him saying “hey why are you in my area?” and we laughed, then Grindr sorta became our way of sending voice messages to one another instead of WhatsApp. Pretty interesting.
Below is a bit of a convo we had that I saved about segregation in NYC. No relation to Roe vs Wade, but just so you can hear what our convos were like.