Flag Wars

blatant homophobia vs blatant racism. beautiful, crazy, sad.

Mary Wheeler

impossible for me to give an objective rating. required watching for anyone interested in historical Columbus politics and development

SenatorMeow

Any time you weaponize your own oppression to take from someone even more vulnerable than you, you are now on the side of the oppressors.

Mer

worth noting that the realtor lady who said “capitalism is my middle name” also said “i hate sweating.”

titanic cake

Damn they really let that realtor lady go off at the dinner table even though she was obviously drunk lmao  Anyways, I found the topic interesting but the doc itself very boring. Now off to write an essay over this for class

yeli_yeli

ooh this made me mad. one thing that I will continue to do is remind other white queers that they’re WHITE. watch this and then tell me gentrification isn’t violent… talking about “having compassion for the building” but you don’t have compassion for your Black neighbors?…

Ana

An extremely interesting dive into what happens when two minorities clash over a neighborhood in urban Columbus, Ohio. Privilege and discrimination come from all angles and the city’s red tape becomes a weapon. All of this is nothing quite new and can be seen on the news…

jokainii

Being white and queer, but also having spent a decade in the 80s and 90s going to school in this neighborhood while growing up in a different gentrifying area in Columbus, means Flag Wars bounces around bits of myself and my memories in ways both expected and not. It’s part…

Talcott

At times, this years-in-the-making chronicle of a gentrifying historically black Columbus, OH, neighborhood is a searing encapsulation of the sickening machinations of that process, especially those scenes that focus on a realtor who proudly declares "capitalism is my…

momalley