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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]The hypocrisy of all these elites on here acting offended by Trump’s remarks when most of them probably think Baltimore is a no-go zone filled with too many blue collar people is really, really rich.

People on the Real Estate forum act like anyone who chooses to live in Baltimore is imperiling their family and their children’s future and anyone who would dare live their is a naive fool. Cut the righteous indignation. You’re not fooling anyone.

This is coming from someone who loves Baltimore, faults and all.[/quote]

+1. Baltimore native. It’s great to see so many defending Baltimore after denigrating it for years over on the real estate forum. Glad you are so woke now.   :roll: 
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No, plenty of people who post on the RE forum agree with what Trump said, about this, and about most things. They might have voted for him, too. But that doesn’t mean those of us who criticize those folks (I am one), AND who are criticizing remarks that single out the people of Baltimore, in such a crass and cruel way, by saying it’s infested and those living there are subhuman, are hypocrites.

I have spent a fair amount of time in Baltimore, lived there myself for a year. It’s an interesting place, with a lot of beauty. It’s also very economically depressed, which makes me sad, the same way the ghost towns of the Midwest make me sad. I might not want to move there, because there are fewer job opportunities, for myself and my kids in the future, but that doesn’t mean I hate the city and its people and that I don’t wish for a different outcome.

I can’t tell if the trolls are so delusional, or just trying to gaslight, but in case it’s literally a lack of understanding, let me try to explain. The issue is really one of tone and intent. It’s like, when you criticize your own family member out of frustration, you know they have faults but you love them anyway and they know that, so it’s understood. But nobody else better talk about your momma. Those are fighting words. Get it? Trump is not Baltimore’s family, and he just picked a fight. He does that a lot, like most bullies. He’s farking Biff from Back to the Future. How are you gonna root for Biff?!?! [/quote]

You know that Cummings called his own district "infested" 20 years ago?  And, yet, nothing has changed.  If anything, it has become worse. 
One has to ask why.  
Yes, there are beautiful parts of Baltimore.  But, for a county that has one of the highest incomes in the nation,  you would think that the areas of Baltimore that are rat-infested and horribly. depressed would have received some attention by now.  
I'll give props to Trump for getting the nation talking about this.........[/quote]

So, you just ignored what I wrote? Gaslighting it is, I guess. Cummings is FAMIlLY. He’s earned a right to say things about and to Baltimore that Trump has NOT. Also, he didn’t say no humans would live there. Tone and intent matter, Biff.[/quote]

That is such BS.  [b]You remind me of someone who tells an off-color Irish joke and says, "But I can tell that because I'm Irish." [/b]
Anyone can see the blight in portions of Baltimore.  The woman who started this discussion with her videos lives in the area and she was excoriated because she dared to shine the light on the issues.  
Also, Trump said that no human would WANT to live there.  I bet if you ask the residents there - they would say they have no choice, but if they did, they wouldn't want to live in the conditions they have to tolerate.  
And, Cummings did say the residents were walking around like "zombies."  [/quote]

Okay, Biff.

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Typical.  Can't debate the merits of an argument, so you resort to name calling.  [/quote]

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