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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]DC culture these days is about victim blaming anytime a crime is brought up. A lot of the new arrivals are moving in based on the pre-pandemic glory days of DC when there was actually something enjoyable about the city.[/quote]
I would argue that the “culture” such that I can see is actually people getting social credit for having “experiences” and as a result more and more people are turning ordinary city interactions into a story of their own victimhood.

Let’s be clear, crime is terrible and violent crime in particular undermines the social compact. There is too much crime and violent crime in DC. The people getting violently attacked is outrageous. However, what is also outrageous are these people competing for attention to me too these bad incidents. To piggy back on others misery to get attention and condolences from others for their own person sense of entitlement and victimhood.

The city absolutely needs to improve and halt this decline but also, absolutely no one should listen to these people whine.

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People aren't whining to establish their own victimhood. They are shocked to find out that this supposedly fun, progressive city is reminiscent of the meth den rust belt cities they left. They also have to vent online anonymously because there is zero community support in DC for victims of crime, it's all about guessing the backstory of the criminal and throwing out some theories about how to get people to behave properly without arresting anyone.[/quote]
I think what they are shocked to discover in DC is that black people can bother them without fear of state violence. Just because black people bother you does not mean that you are the victim of a crime.[/quote]

Getting robbed, stabbed, beaten and killed makes one a victim of a crime.[/quote]
None of those people are complaining on Reddit actual crime victims.

Uncivil behavior undermines the ability to build community but it is not a crime in the USA. The chief complaint from every single one of these people is that a black person has been uncivil to them without repercussions. And some are absolutely apoplectic that it has happened in front of police officers!

Violent crime is a big issue in DC. These people thinking that their share any commonality with actual crime victims is offensive.

Certainly the types of incivility described is not nice and has negative impacts on quality of life. If you are someone who cannot countenance a black person being uncivil to you then you may be more comfortable moving somewhere else and a lot of people have![/quote]

Ah, yet another progressive claiming POC don't commit sexual harassment, it's just incivility when they do it.[/quote]

It’s weird how the bar just gets lowered as we grind on as a country. Obviously we had a bad past, but some of the liberal policies enacted to counter that are so swlf flagellating and masochistic.

Race neutral tests for entry to rigorous schools don’t have the right results? Nix em. Ap classes too hard and the optics aren’t right on who takes the classes? Nix em. Car jackings, kids lighting leaves on fire under cars in Hill East, and shooting paintballs in the winter at people in their homes? That’s okay you live in the city and some people should get a pass to do that because incarceration rates are optically unpalatable. If you don’t like it move to McLean. Discipline in school? Again, bad optics, so we new to let suspensions and expulsions slide in favor of “restorative justice” and lax policies, even for physical bullying, that put the abused in a less safe position. We also need to let bikers ride around the city on Honda dirt bikes because we just can’t even stop it and it’s cool, we should lower the bar for teens to commit crimes with the youth Rehabiliation act and let violent criminals out earlier with the 2nd chance act. It’s slap on the wrist these days. In California they’ve raised the threshold for theft to over $1000, and there are increasing amounts of smash and grab robberies.

Then you have these neighborhood Facebook groups full of idealistic, altruistic until it hurts idiots who will slander you for being concerned about crime and tell you not to call the police if someone is trying to steal a package off your porch or shoots a paintball at your house because they might get arrested and have a bad future. We will all have a bad future if we don’t actually allow good police to police. There are bad police, but most aren’t. I give up. I’m not leaving dc, but I wish we could get someone who doesn’t show extreme fealty to these aggressive progressive sort of crime people.[/quote]

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