Look, we can have debates about the best detailed policy response to rampant racism and unchecked violence in policing. We can have debates about how best to reduce crime.
But as someone who currently lives in Minneapolis, what @tomfriedman is saying here is a lie.
But as someone who currently lives in Minneapolis, what @tomfriedman is saying here is a lie.
Tuesday night I rode a dumb yuppie electric bike from one of the statistically most high crime neighborhoods in the city to another. It was a great evening. If this is what dystopian ghost town hellscapes look like I'll take it.
The parks are full of people, like usual. The roads are full of cyclists (much to the consternation of my more-car-oriented loved ones). My oldest kid is learning to walk to the fish and chicken place on the corner and pay for a bottle of Faygo on her own.
Myths about dangerous dystopias don't help anyone. Those myths don't help Dems get elected. They sure as hell don't help Minneapolitans -- not white ones, not Black ones. Not anybody. LEARN HOW TO TALK ABOUT CRIME WITHOUT DEHUMANIZING A WHOLE CITY.
And editors: When someone who doesn't live in a place writes something like this about it ... that's your moment for a fact check.
Like, not to armchair edit here, but if someone writing for me both said "it is clear we need to take action against racist policing" and then used a dystopian midcentury "cities are hellscapes" narrative ... I would be asking them some questions about their rhetoric.
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