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> Mayor London Breed didn't support Prop C, eh?

I guess Benioff represents SF culture, while Breed doesn't?

It's perhaps worth remembering that Benioff - who also bought his name on a hospital - got a pass well before Prop C came along.



> I guess Benioff represents SF culture, while Breed doesn't?

In re: Prop C, yes.

> It's perhaps worth remembering that Benioff - who also bought his name on a hospital -

Really? Which one?

Huh, so he did: https://www.ucsfbenioffchildrens.org/

Okay, I hate him now. (Just kidding. I will admit that I am not upset by this in the same way that Zuckerberg's thing makes me feel. FWIW, I'll examine that personally on my own time.)

> got a pass well before Prop C came along.

You mean he didn't suddenly become cool circa Prop C?

;-P

Well met Kalium.


I find it slightly ironic that in one post you're complaining that when it comes to supporting the community "nobody cares, except to criticize", then a post or two later a dude's gifted a load of money to a children's hospital and you describe that as "buying his name on a hospital"


I was deliberating mirroring my interlocutor's phrasing to make a point. One was resented, and used as a point against the person. The other passed unremarked.

As a rhetorical flourish, it did it was intended to do and exposed an apparent double standard.




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