Gothamist: East Village Resident Says Let Yuppies Live

cucarachita

Wed, 06 Aug 2008 22:48:25 -0500

Yeah, France66, you actually don't need to know because yuppies are totally obsolete! They're no longer yuppies, they're currently already old farts living somewhere else and getting new knees and removing bits of their colons! It's hipsters that should be the target of this guy's hate speech, if hate speech he must pronounce against anyone. He's a relic, himself now! That's hard to stomach! Probably what makes him so violent, poor slob. Silly rabbit! Trix are for kids!

france66

Wed, 06 Aug 2008 15:09:46 -0500

can someone please tell me what a yuppie is?

blablanyc

Wed, 06 Aug 2008 14:26:54 -0500

A yuppie activist is a person way of making a difference is by supporting Obama, owning a bike, and buying from green markets. Meanwhile paying high rents or paying a gazillion dollars for a condo. Nonsensical.

cornholioNYC

Wed, 06 Aug 2008 14:05:08 -0500

old misfits

robingee

Wed, 06 Aug 2008 13:14:48 -0500

I hate suburban hip-hip polka-dancing cowboy pirates!

Tgirl

Wed, 06 Aug 2008 12:21:45 -0500

[24] yupsters, a yuppie hipster

rdsizzle

Wed, 06 Aug 2008 11:26:01 -0500

Yuppies are so 80's / early 90's. Now its urbanites which is like a yuppie 2.0 or kind of a hybride between a yuppie and an activist.

spenguind

Wed, 06 Aug 2008 10:46:08 -0500

"I've got something to say... I killed your baby today"... now he's tearing down hate posters?

JRod5417

Wed, 06 Aug 2008 10:06:38 -0500

Wishing death to yuppies seems so retro and nonsensical. So, if someone is born and raised in NYC and they have a career earning enough money to live decently, they should move to the suburbs. Imagine what a dump every city would be if that were the case.

Nick S

Wed, 06 Aug 2008 10:00:35 -0500

sigh. sounds like its time for Jerry to pull up stakes and start looking elsewhere. The dream is over, man..move on.

twakum

Wed, 06 Aug 2008 09:39:00 -0500

I bet Jerry lives in a rent-controlled apartment. I wonder if he would stop me from putting up "Rent Controlled Scum Must Die" posters. Dude, you should be living in a trailer in western Jersey.

blablanyc

Wed, 06 Aug 2008 08:59:01 -0500

I can't stand Bobby. He must have suffered some severe brain damage when he would get his ass beaten.

johncharles2020

Tue, 05 Aug 2008 21:15:54 -0500

Yes it is clear Jerry was not right to put his hands on this guy- yet do not let this take away from what he is saying and doing-manhattan in this case east vill is morphing into a caricature of what it was and stood for this is due to the increasing real estate money being put here which of course forces long time residents out weather that means working class folks or counter culture people so if this guy Jerry is fighting against this tough tough fight and he got a little angry and bent someones pinky finger well he should agologize and move onward and upward in his fight gainst yuppie scum-

smacky

Tue, 05 Aug 2008 21:02:36 -0500

YEA! BROKEN YUPPIE FINGERS!

NannyState

Tue, 05 Aug 2008 19:42:25 -0500

I take it Bobby Steele was a no-show at Tompkins Square the other day.

seaanemoneman

Tue, 05 Aug 2008 18:37:18 -0500

Technically, a battery.

Sinchy

Tue, 05 Aug 2008 18:20:25 -0500

This steele guy has a legit beef with the peddler and the "die yuppy scum" motto but in his op-ed he smears all the good people left and right who are against this war, by saying "This is the true antiwar movement. These are the peace activists that you see when you turn on your TV and see a report about a protest or riot in New York City: 'Support the antiwar movement — or we’ll kill you.'" This Jerry the Peddler does not = the anti war movement any more than Steele represents punk rock.

ganghiscon

Tue, 05 Aug 2008 17:45:04 -0500

Who cares if suburban kids like The Misfits? All this "kill this guy" and "kill that guy" is worse than shopping at Hot Topic. Above should have been italicized.

ganghiscon

Tue, 05 Aug 2008 17:44:27 -0500

Who cares if suburban kids like The Misfits? All this "kill this guy" and "kill that guy" is worse than shopping at Hot Topic. Not to mention the Misfits are from Lodi, NJ. A suburb, no? Bobby Steele was only briefly in the band and is most notable for being kicked out.

Splicer

Tue, 05 Aug 2008 17:43:08 -0500

And there you have it - another well-adjusted activist.

TheKlaus

Tue, 05 Aug 2008 17:41:48 -0500

I can't believe the guy who played in the band that wrote the tune Last Caress has a problem with 'hate speech'. I guess Die Die Die My Darling is OK Bobby?

JacqueMehoff

Tue, 05 Aug 2008 17:19:41 -0500

and take your handbag tote dogs with you.

jaycjay

Tue, 05 Aug 2008 17:19:37 -0500

hopefully he'll press charges Certainly that's what a yuppie would do.

robingee

Tue, 05 Aug 2008 17:16:24 -0500

Who cares if suburban kids like The Misfits? All this "kill this guy" and "kill that guy" is worse than shopping at Hot Topic.

sidenote

Tue, 05 Aug 2008 17:13:11 -0500

Ha, +1 zodak.

ChampionOfTheSun

Tue, 05 Aug 2008 17:09:19 -0500

I'd be fine with, "Go Live in the 'Burbs, Yuppie Scum!"

fakenewyorker

Tue, 05 Aug 2008 17:07:41 -0500

i wonder how he feels that suburban kids who shop at hot topic wear misfits t shirts.

plk779

Tue, 05 Aug 2008 16:58:27 -0500

Man, life is too hard to go around hating and worrying all the time. Everyone just needs to relax.

zodak

Tue, 05 Aug 2008 16:50:34 -0500

hopefully he'll press charges & the cops will do something about this jerry guy, but to be sure he should tell the police that jerry was on his bicycle at the time.