The Guardian (U.K.) has a story about a coffee shop in Denver which made a doozy of this latter form of gaffe on a sandwich-board outside its door. Hat tip to Lucianne.com for the link.
The Colorado coffeehouse chain ink! became a lightning rod for economic ire on Wednesday, after one of its Denver stores displayed a message on its sidewalk sandwich-board that read: “Happily Gentrifying The Neighborhood Since 2014.”What made this a Kinsley-type gaffe is their traditionally black neighborhood actually has been gentrifying over the last few years. The coffee shop is likely both a force for, and a result of, whites moving in, rents going up, and minorities being priced out.
Gentrification was tolerable as long as nobody let on. Bragging about it was the PR disaster. Blacks don't like that it's intentional, virtue signalling whites don't want it said they're injuring the less fortunate ... a lose-lose gaffe.
