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[Update] Video: Enraged White Guy Who "Settled" Downtown Brooklyn Accuses Stroller Pushers Of "White Privilege"
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Ben Yakas
Published Sep 23, 2015
Modified Sep 25, 2015
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Published Sep 23, 2015
Modified Sep 25, 2015
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[UPDATE: We interviewed Brooklyn's self-proclaimed "settler."]
A faux pas involving a stroller-pushing white guy and a jogging white guy erupted into privilege warfare in Downtown Brooklyn this week. As the unhinged jogger put it: "The only reason white people like you are living here is because I settled this fucking neighborhood for you!" That is what we in the biz call the money shot.
Considering the magnitude of the jogger's rage, you'd think the stroller-pusher messed up his brand new white Air Jordans on the hottest day of the year. But despite promising to kill the stroller-pusher with one punch (you know, he DOES fight for a living) in front of (what appears to be) a security guard, no white people are physically harmed during the filming of the video.
But their emotions are another story.
"White privilege! White fucking privilege! You pushed your stroller right into me, and all I say was 'excuse you,' and then you said, 'fuck you fuck you!' You fucking white trash!"
Really, this video so perfectly encapsulates the state of downtown Brooklyn 2015 that it's probably staged. Stay tuned for our update that this is all viral marketing for Bugaboo.
(Side note: what kind of a job could the jogger have that he fights for a living? Artisanal bouncer? Bill O'Reilly's personal guard? Road House employee with a degree from Princeton?) If you know this man, please shoot us an email.
Update 2:40 p.m.: The video has been taken down but you can see it via Metro below (while it is still up).
In case it gets taken down again, you can see the finger-pointing argument play out for eternity in the form of the GIF below, courtesy of Gawker.
And you can also see the full transcript of the video below, via The Awl.
Back off me
Back off me
Back the fuck off me
Back the fuck off me
Back the fuck off ME
Don’t fucking come back here
I’ll kill you
With one punch
You’re messing with the wrong guy
I fight for a living
You’re messing with the wrong guy
‘scuse you, pal
You push your stroller into people?
Your baby could get hurt
Your baby could get hurt
I fight babies like you, baby
You’re new in the neighborhood
I came to this neighborhood
The only reason white people like you are living here
Is because I settled this fucking neighborhood
For you
Don’t push your stroller into my legs
Don’t push your stroller into my legs
White privilege! White fucking privilege!
You push your stroller right into me
And all I said was, “Excuse you”
And then you said, “Fuck you”
Fuck you!
Fuck you
You white trash
You fucking white trash
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Ben Yakas
Ben Yakas is a former Gothamist reporter.
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