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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I would say one would have had plenty of positive and negative interactions with people of all shades, creeds, races in this region.

Honest question, how can someone still have such views when the area is so diverse?

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Unfortunate realization: virtually 99% of all crime in DC is committed by youngish black males. I returned here after college fully woke  and somewhat strident about it, but over the last many years, I've reached the point where I can't reconcile the progressive dogma with the realty of DC's crime statistics. And I really have no patience left for street criminals and shooters.

I don't think noticing this makes me racist, but I'm sure others disagree.[/quote]

I always wonder where yall live. I am 50, black, have lived in DC (the city, not the DMV) for almost 20 years and have never been a victim of a crime of any kind -- never mugged, no car break-ins, no home break-ins, nothing. But to hear other people tell it, they are living in an apocalyptic war zone. [/quote]

White upper class culture has a low tolerance level for perceived discomfort. White people have been socialized to expect a life without road blocks. So if a white person even witnesses a crime, they freak out and plot moving to the suburbs where they believe they will be safer. There was a thread a couple months ago asking why people moved to suburbs. I was surprised how many people said they moved because of "crime". This drives opposition to affordable housing, transportation equity and desegregating schools. Also white people know how to work the system and reap rewards from it. [/quote]

“Low tolerance level for perceived discomfort?” I think many of you are new to DC. Even pp who moved here after 2000 doesn’t know what it used to be like.  In the late 80’s and early 90’s, I lived in three different houses in Cleveland Park that were all burgled, and I was mugged at Union Station. When I lived in DuPont Circle before that, there were three people shot within a block of my apartment in one month. It wasn’t the only reason we moved to the burbs, but it was certainly one. It’s twenty five years later, and I have not been the victim of a crime since. This was not that long ago, and it is not as far to get back to those times as you think. The city government seems determined to go there. [/quote]

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