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28 Jun, 4 tweets, 1 min read
A Funny Thing Happens When You Mention Record-Breaking Homicide Rates mtracey.substack.com/p/a-funny-thin…
I'm going to Philadelphia next month to report on the record-breaking homicide trends in the city. Any online leftist who wants to tell local residents that they've been duped into perceiving this as a problem is welcome to join me! (Seriously, email or DM)
Still waiting for an explanation of how it's not considered racist, or at the very least insultingly condescending, to tell residents of inner-city neighborhoods beset by soaring levels of lethal violence that their perceptions of this being a problem are "inorganic" -- aka fake
Record-breaking numbers of homicides are occurring in many jurisdictions (Louisville, Albuquerque, Columbus, etc.) but this tends to be concentrated in places that are ignored by national media. That's the point

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8 Jun
If you go around interpreting the display of American flags in America as some kind of personal/political affront to you, consider that the problem may be your own neuroses
I was just at a Memorial Day parade in a racially mixed area in which everybody was displaying American flags. If you walked up and tried to inform them that the flag actually connoted "whiteness" you would've been greeted by blank stares or laughter
I live in one of the most racially-mixed parts of the entire country and there's an American flag on my building. A house next door (non-white owners) displays an American flag. This whole mentality, as usual, is an ideological projection by cultural elites onto non-white normies
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From a policy standpoint, the most confounding aspect of the trip is that my status as fully-vaccinated made no difference to anything. Didn't enable circumvention of any bureaucratic roadblocks. I might as well *not* have been vaccinated! Seems like the wrong incentive
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