@jakelazaroff Found this post (and your profile) via a boost in my timeline. I really loved the article — and your blog design while we’re at it. I’m coming from a similar place as yours, meaning that I didn’t know DHH very well and I, too, assumed he was just a normal person who simply had different political ideas from mine. But when someone pointed me to that post, I was like “Whaaaat!?”

@jakelazaroff Also, I know it’s probably just a rhetorical device to start talking about the people, but I found so weird that a person couldn’t be infatuated anymore with a city because of the people living in it. I stayed in Paris 13 years ago. I sorely miss it. But when I think about it, it’s not that I miss the white native Parisians. I miss the places, the streets, the cafés, the Opera, the museums, the bookshops; I miss moving through it, the atmosphere. I miss hearing people speak French.