People are so stupid

I love love love this! About two blocks from my house is an abandoned armory building that has sat empty for at least the ten years that I've lived in San Francisco. The outside of it had broken windows, graffiti, skate punks using the steps as a ramp, passed out bums on the sidewalk, and lovely trash and feces adorning the abandoned area.

Then the company Kink.com bought it for 14.5 million to build a giant porn studio inside it.

Nobody in the neighborhood would have noticed what was going on had not the Chronicle run a big article about how great it was that finally someone bought it.

Now there are protests outside it- apparently 50 people in the rain today. From the looks of it most of the protesters are Mission District Latinos- a particularly insular and hilariously myopic community.

"This is oppressive and inappropriate for our community,'' said Sam Ruiz, executive director of Mission Neighborhood Centers. "It's not OK to promote acts of degradation and violence. We don't want this kind of stuff here.''

Another protester carried a sign that said "Why not a recreation center for youth?"

Apparently they are unaware that:

1. Pornography is perfectly legal, and here it would be filmed indoors where they'd never see it.
   
2. There are (I believe) at least three youth/community recreation centers in the Mission already, plus several art centers.
   
3. There are at least two other porn studios in the Mission.
4. Latino gang violence over drug dealing turf plagues the neighborhood, and that the real prostitution, crime, and homelessness in the neighborhood are caused by the drugs sold and not by $500-an-hour bondage actresses.
   
5. You can buy a hooker or crack outdoors, day or night, within two blocks of the Armory building.