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Originally Posted by al2six
well i don't want to change the subject of this thread to detroit, so i'll make this one last post and leave it at that.
my point wasn't that detroit is a paradise and no one gets killed. but exagerating that 30 people get killed there every weekend is ridiculous. you've over estimated by nearly 14x. if we over estimated winnipeg's murders by 14x, it would be about 420. i'm sure if someone was posting that over 400 people a year are killed in winnipeg, people familar with the city would be saying "what the heck are you talking about, thats way off the mark!"
point is, i find it disturbing when someone exagerates a troubled city's problems. doing this further hurts the public's perception of that city, giving it a poorer image than it deserves. that bad image only perpetuates the problems that city is already experiencing by discouraging individuals, families and business from entering the area. you should be rallying behind these cities, not kicking them when they're down, because a city is not some lifeless entity. it is children, single mothers, families, retirees, etc. The people that make up these troubled cities have a tough job ahead of them to bring their cities back to where they need to be. why make it any harder on them by further tarnishing their reputation?
it's ok to talk frankly about the problems a city faces, but please, lets not make ourselves feel better about our own cities by pissing on another. now lets get back to talking about crime in canada  |
Agreed. However, it seems perfectly acceptable, nay, understood and sometimes even celebrated by other Canadians that Winnipeg is some barren wasteland over run by gangs and urban decay.
It seems to me at least, that MacLean’s did to Winnipeg exactly what I did to Detroit in my last post (for which I apologize). That is kicking a city when it’s down to make cocksucker Torontonians in their half million dollar Bloor St Lofts feel good about themselves.
The truth is Toronto has a little area called Regent Park that makes anything the North End has to offer look like Disneyworld.
MacLeans has never been a relevent magazine to me, and as a vanguard of national opinion I find it does a very poor job.