THEAMERICANCONSERVATIVE (Bill Kauffman) - Lookin’ Out Your Backdoor
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Culture Lookin’ Out Your Backdoor There’s nothing wrong with caring about your backyard. Say the powers-that-be determine to site something truly noxious—a radioactive waste dump, a halfway house for child molesters, a data center—in your neighborhood. (These almost inevitably will be government projects or enabled by corporate welfare and subsidies to developers.) You protest. Instead of meeting your sincere remonstrations with arguments, you will be sneeringly called a NIMBY—a Not in My Backyard obstructionist. This epithet can be disorienting. Not in My Backyard? Well, yeah—not in my backyard. What’s wrong with caring…Open