A little humor for these bleak days.
Woke broke the bookstore.
The radical Lower East Side shop that lured drug addicts to its storefront by offering free clothing, food and Narcan suddenly shut down Tuesday -- sparking internal warfare and finger pointing.
Without warning, Bluestockings Cooperative announced that it would permanently shut down after more than 26 years, stating that "daily operations are unfortunately no longer sustainable on multiple fronts."
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The Suffolk Street shop blamed the closure on its failure as a worker-owned cooperative to "come to consensus around the guiding principles and practices Bluestockings should embody" -- adding that an inability to align on political and business operations directly led to the setbacks the business faced over the last two years.
In other words, the feminists running this radical queer space for junkies wanted the owners to just lose money forever, and the owners, surprisingly enough, disagreed.
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Bluestockings came under intense outrage from its posh Lower East Side neighborhood, which transformed into a "zombie apocalypse" of strung-out junkies shooting up in broad daylight who were drawn to the bookstore's free and indiscriminate services.
The self-described "radically inclusive" shop was a state-recognized Opiate Overdose Prevention Program and offered "harm reduction services" like Narcan, drug-testing strips and a used needle-drop off bin -- which neighbors alleged enabled the junkies.
In recent years, Bluestockings plunged into around $100,000 in debt to its publishers and book distributors, according to reports.
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Neighbors, however, celebrated the closure and expressed hope that its termination would finally usher out the five regulars who have turned Suffolk Street into a drug den.
"It's going to be a plus," said Marie, 68, who has lived on the block for her entire life.
"I heard they were giving out free needles, which is a good thing and a bad thing because everyone knew where to go, but I guess no one was overdosing from a bad needle ... You see the [drug] exchanges in front of your face."
The retired meter maid admitted that the issue has lessened in recent years, but that the street -- which houses a pre-school -- fills up with homeless addicts at night. Police pass through during the day more frequently, she added.
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Numerous "worker-owners" of the cooperative flooded the comments section of the Bluestocking's closing announcement to claim they had not been consulted before they were fired from their gigs, a move they described as "violent" and racially-charged.
"My collective of in-store workers, all melanated POC, did not make this decision. the white folks on the lease who are former worker owners made this decision without consulting any of us. hold the white folks attempting to act like this was a collective process accountable. this is false and white violence," one employee by the name of Dheivanai claimed.
Radical leftist black and Hispanic agitators always distinguish between "melanated folx" -- yes, they say "folx" in their message -- as their way of excluding Asians. That's why they came up with the term "BIPOC," "black and indigenous (that is, Hispanic and Indian) persons of color." To make it clear that they should get the DEI jobs, not the Asians.
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"This was not a consensus," Gandhi said. "If you're a cooperative and if you're worker-owned, the people who were actually working had not contributed to this decision."
There was no "consensus" between workers and owners over whether the owners would add to their $100,000+ debt to keep the radical queer melanated POC feminists on the payroll. And then the owners, who are paying all the bills, made the "violent" white decision to stop losing money.
All of this is very reminiscent of the Philadelphia coffee shop run by radical queer folx that BlackOrchid brought to our attention a couple of years ago.
The workers do not call themselves workers. They call themselves "worker-stewards" -- the latter indicating that they are the caretakers of the property. In other words, they're implying some kind of Squatter's Rights to continue occupying the store while also receiving a wage for not working very much at all.
The "black folx" further allege that the owners' decision to shut the store down is a "violent legal force" by white people. The "worker-steward" then emphasizes that this is "extremely violent."
How are all you Folx doing?
Bonus: Cracker Barrel loses its former position as the country's fastest-growing breakfast chain due to the hatred of anything traditional or masculine of its woke cosmpolitan DEI incompetent girlboss.
What strikes me most about the woke DEI incompetent girlbosses is how very unprofessional they are.
Let me explain: Let's say you were put in charge of a company that you yourself didn't patronize. It's not your style, it's not your taste.
Do you read studies and talk to customers to find out why they like the company's offerings?
Or do you solipsistically, narcissistically decide to remake the company wholesale to appeal to you because you're angry that not every single corporation in the world caters exclusively to your tastes?
The first option is the professional, real-CEO option.
The second option is the unprofessional, narcissistic, self-obsessed childish option.
And companies keep appointing incompetent DEI girlbosses who decide that they don't like the products which have made the corporation a titan and so they're going to change it all to appeal to themselves and their sorority sister c*nts.
For example: Kathleen Kennedy took the ultimate Boy Brand and decided "I don't like this, it's not for girls enough" and remade a four billion dollar franchise into something that has all but stopped putting out movies because the brand is now toxic.
Instead of taking the professional route, she chose the personal, political route. Not "how can I make this company serve its customers better?" but "how can I make this company serve me and some fake-elite incompetents who think exactly like me?"