Re:Housing in the Bay Area
by HillaryBriss on Thursday May 26, 2016 @12:31PM
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Thanks for clarifying.
FWIW, personally, I would refrain from using the word "xenophobic" so readily, especially because of its deeply negative connotations.
In my Berkeley/Texas example, imagine a scenario where the Texas transplants destroyed all their guns, recycled all of their cans of Budweiser, started buying Chimay Ales from the Berkeley Bowl and put Bernie Sanders bumper stickers on their cars. If some long-time Berkeley resident _still_ rejected these erstwhile Texans as outsiders, then I would trot out the label "xenophobe." But probably not before that.
FWIW, personally, I would refrain from using the word "xenophobic" so readily, especially because of its deeply negative connotations.
In my Berkeley/Texas example, imagine a scenario where the Texas transplants destroyed all their guns, recycled all of their cans of Budweiser, started buying Chimay Ales from the Berkeley Bowl and put Bernie Sanders bumper stickers on their cars. If some long-time Berkeley resident _still_ rejected these erstwhile Texans as outsiders, then I would trot out the label "xenophobe." But probably not before that.