Goodbye, Washington DC.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:The real issue here is not his white fragility but the fact that the latest combination of protests, violence and the huge decrease in the MPD budget will speed up white flight to the suburbs and you will have a lot of wealthier whites leaving. There is going to be a lot of disposable income leaving the district for the suburbs over the next few years and that is not good for an urban area when that money leaves. There are a lot of businesses that are already struggling from the pandemic and the economic shutdown that might have survived but will die over the next couple of years as money leaves the area.

This, exactly.
He wasn't writing about just HIS exit - he was pointing out the issues that are causing people with money to leave.

I'm not surprised that the majority of the people responding here don't get that.

Nope it may chase out the final 500 right wingers from the city but nothing will change. Dc is vibrant and thriving as much as a city can during this mess

“DC is vibrant”. Ha! Yes, I love the smell of metro fumes, corrupt politicians, the entitled, and the homeless in the morning.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The real issue here is not his white fragility but the fact that the latest combination of protests, violence and the huge decrease in the MPD budget will speed up white flight to the suburbs and you will have a lot of wealthier whites leaving. There is going to be a lot of disposable income leaving the district for the suburbs over the next few years and that is not good for an urban area when that money leaves. There are a lot of businesses that are already struggling from the pandemic and the economic shutdown that might have survived but will die over the next couple of years as money leaves the area.

This, exactly.
He wasn't writing about just HIS exit - he was pointing out the issues that are causing people with money to leave.

I'm not surprised that the majority of the people responding here don't get that.

Nope it may chase out the final 500 right wingers from the city but nothing will change. Dc is vibrant and thriving as much as a city can during this mess

“DC is vibrant”. Ha! Yes, I love the smell of metro fumes, corrupt politicians, the entitled, and the homeless in the morning.

You perfectly summed up DC. Entitled boomers living right next door to miscreants. Utopia if I've ever seen one

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:The real issue here is not his white fragility but the fact that the latest combination of protests, violence and the huge decrease in the MPD budget will speed up white flight to the suburbs and you will have a lot of wealthier whites leaving. There is going to be a lot of disposable income leaving the district for the suburbs over the next few years and that is not good for an urban area when that money leaves. There are a lot of businesses that are already struggling from the pandemic and the economic shutdown that might have survived but will die over the next couple of years as money leaves the area.

But isn't that white people being fragile?

Sadly, you are correct. That is exactly what White Fragility is

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:This is exactly the kind of white moderate that MLK warned us about.

Letter from Birmingham Jail (ext)
By Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr., 16 April 1963
"First, I must confess that over the last few years I have been gravely disappointed with the white moderate. I have almost reached the regrettable conclusion that the Negro's great stumbling block in the stride toward freedom is not the White Citizen's Council-er or the Ku Klux Klanner, but the white moderate who is more devoted to "order" than to justice; who prefers a negative peace which is the absence of tension to a positive peace which is the presence of justice; who constantly says "I agree with you in the goal you seek, but I can't agree with your methods of direct action;" who paternalistically feels he can set the timetable for another man's freedom; who lives by the myth of time and who constantly advises the Negro to wait until a "more convenient season."

Shallow understanding from people of goodwill is more frustrating than absolute misunderstanding from people of ill will. Lukewarm acceptance is much more bewildering than outright rejection."

Human Events isn't a publication for moderates

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Anonymous wrote:Great piece. And, I suppose there are many more like him in DC, Seattle, Portland, etc. etc. etc......

The pact we made to live here has broken. What am I paying for? A defunded police force? More murder? More violence? Do the property taxes I’ve faithfully paid for years not protect the CVS I can see from my bedroom—a building which recently had every window smashed and was looted because of “justice”? When the metro was lousy, we turned to Uber. When the schools were failing, parents turned to charter schools. When one area turned bleak another neighborhood popped up. But when chaos and destruction permeate, and an exhausted people asking for relief are told their indifference–not violent looters—is the true culprit, then there is no alternative but to leave.

The protesters may think this is their moment, but there is a deep, dark secret that will crush every disaffected group now demanding “justice” or “awareness” is this: city people really don’t care. We have an amazing, almost unparalleled ability, to be indifferent.

Real city people have no bandwidth to lay down dead in the street or start fires as part of a “protest.” Look at our day: after our miserable commute to work, we have long days in the office, followed by happy hour, client dinners, drinks, maybe a fundraiser or two or having cigars at Shelly’s—and that doesn’t include going to the gym, picking up dry cleaning, seeing our actual friends or spouse, and that miserable commute back home. Quite honestly, we don’t have time for your cause—of which there are so many, so very many causes, so much so that even a city as liberal DC just does not care.

Gay? Black? Trans? No offense, but, so what? We are city people: we have seen it all—literally, all—our entire lives. You are our neighbors, our friends, the president of our HOAs, our coworkers. The great beauty of the city is that we come from all walks of life and we get along. We accomplish this by leaving each other alone.

That’s why, when DC’s Mayor Bowser spray painted “Black Lives Matter” in front of my tea spot, I knew I was done. Not because of the issue itself or the cause (remember I don’t really care) but because through her actions, Browser effectively mandated empathy. This was government-sanctioned compassion. The mayor used taxpayer dollars—the one’s I’ve forked over for years—to force her beliefs on me. And, just like that, the pact was broken.

https://humanevents.com/2020/07/23/goodbye-washington-dc/

Agreed - but you'll get nothing but grief from the intolerant leftists on this thread.

Leftists aren’t intolerant. You’re just confused because we won’t tolerate your intolerance. It’s the strangest thing with you people, so desperate for your hate and vitriol toward others to be validated, but it never will be.

Leftist are literally the most hate-filled people. Open your eyes.

[Anonymous]

All I see are alot of angry white folks who don't care about those EOTR that aren't white.

[Anonymous]

Good riddance to pretentious trash. Maybe gentrification can slow down and born and raised DC residents can actually afford to buy property now.

[Anonymous]

"Real city people have no bandwidth to lay down dead in the street or start fires as part of a “protest.” Look at our day: after our miserable commute to work, we have long days in the office, followed by happy hour, client dinners, drinks, maybe a fundraiser or two or having cigars at Shelly’s—and that doesn’t include going to the gym, picking up dry cleaning, seeing our actual friends or spouse, and that miserable commute back home."

So, apparently, the people who clean his office, make his drinks at the bar, cook his food, work at his gym, clean his clothes, etc., aren't "real city people." His idea of "city people" excludes pretty much everyone who makes the city run, who provides those services that he likes, etc. It's nonsense. Plenty of those protesters are also "real city people," who live and work and study in the city. The neighborhoods he "watched the birth of" were already neighborhoods; it's just that the people in them weren't wealthy and white, so they didn't count.

Like, I also live in the city, and that's not my day AT ALL. I have an easy commute to work, I have a happy hour every once in a while, but I don't have client dinners and drinks and fundraisers and cigars at Shelly's -- way to universalize your experience, buddy. And I DO care about the well-being of my fellow city dwellers. Don't mistake being a dick for being an authentic urbanite.

[Anonymous]

This guy probably go beat up a lot in Brooklyn. He’s a piece of trash who thought he was hotsh#t when he moved to DC.

So long, chump. Enjoy your Tesla in Potomac, norther NJ, or whatever suburb you end up.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:All I see are alot of angry white folks who don't care about those EOTR that aren't white.

No, people are saying that if the violence is supposed to make wealthy white people leave, it's relevant that the violence is, basically, not happening to wealthy white people -- so why would they leave the city because of it?

[Anonymous]

Wow, what a piece of junk. Bye, bruh.

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Anonymous wrote:So so sad! He’ll just have to take his amazing ability to be indifferent to the suburbs. Tragic.

He said he moved 60 miles from DC. That doesn't sound suburban.

I wonder where he moved. Cumberland?

Probably Charles Town.

Or Harper's Ferry, or between Purcellville and Winchester in VA.

Between Frederick and Hagerstown, or down the Patuxent towards Solomon's Island in MD.

Wherever it is, it's not the suburbs.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:The real issue here is not his white fragility but the fact that the latest combination of protests, violence and the huge decrease in the MPD budget will speed up white flight to the suburbs and you will have a lot of wealthier whites leaving. There is going to be a lot of disposable income leaving the district for the suburbs over the next few years and that is not good for an urban area when that money leaves. There are a lot of businesses that are already struggling from the pandemic and the economic shutdown that might have survived but will die over the next couple of years as money leaves the area.

As the owner of a nice single family home on a large lot in a close in suburb who’ll be ready to leave the area in 5-7 years, I applaud DC’s decision to cut police funding.

This will add a couple hundred thousand dollars to my home value by the time I’m ready to leave.


Thanks Maddam Mayor!

As if lawlessness and riots can't move a few blocks across the border.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:So so sad! He’ll just have to take his amazing ability to be indifferent to the suburbs. Tragic.

He said he moved 60 miles from DC. That doesn't sound suburban.

I wonder where he moved. Cumberland?

Probably Charles Town.

Or Harper's Ferry, or between Purcellville and Winchester in VA.

Between Frederick and Hagerstown, or down the Patuxent towards Solomon's Island in MD.

Wherever it is, it's not the suburbs.

Those are all REALLY nice places. Would love to live in any of them.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The real issue here is not his white fragility but the fact that the latest combination of protests, violence and the huge decrease in the MPD budget will speed up white flight to the suburbs and you will have a lot of wealthier whites leaving. There is going to be a lot of disposable income leaving the district for the suburbs over the next few years and that is not good for an urban area when that money leaves. There are a lot of businesses that are already struggling from the pandemic and the economic shutdown that might have survived but will die over the next couple of years as money leaves the area.

But isn't that white people being fragile?

Sadly, you are correct. That is exactly what White Fragility is

Seems like sanity to me. Seems like people of all colors would like to be as far as possible from violence.