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Originally Posted by urbanpln
All of the doom and gloom is kinda depressing. I'm blown away by the fact that there are individuals in a political party(the far right) that are attempting to destroy an American city. "That's totally un-American imo". This country has reached a new low. These attacks on Chicago are coming from all over the country. Every other week there are new articles about the demise of our city. I hope some of the rhetoric will stop after the November election.
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Yeah. I really don't understand any of this except one thing which I won't even mention here. It is completely un American. If people actually offered solutions and said "this is not good, let's work to find a good solution" and had some ones - and showed a willingness - I think it wouldn't anger as many people. But that's not what is done. There is a clear misinformation campaign going on for various things right now and just blatant fearmongering in other areas. I don't even understand what the point is. I look at Bailey and just wonder that. Like he is saying enough stuff to get people scared of Chicago, but he's running for governor of the state for which it belongs and it's one of the top 10 economies in the world. Illinois absolutely needs Chicago to function really well. I just don't know whether these people are this stupid or have something else going on.
And to be honest, there is a broader "campaign" going on about some other cities. There are tons of people out there who legitimately think that cities burned to the ground in the riots in 2020. No joke. NYC for example right now is getting a lot of crap too. I have a friend who is now going to move to Miami who said that "NYC isn't safe anymore" despite Miami having higher violent crime rates and NYC having some of the lowest violent crime rates of any city in the US. I have another friend who moved to SF earlier this year from NYC as well. When we went back to visit, I had a conversation with her about this and she said that NYC is really dangerous now. I told her that actually, San Francisco has high rates of violent crimes like robbery and the murder rate is kind of similar. NYC is actually pretty low crime rate compared to most other cities. She had no idea and said she was just paying attention to social media. Funny thing is she actually moved to Oakland which has a higher murder rate than Chicago (way higher than NYC), and one of the highest robbery rates in the US of any city - like double that of Chicago and DC and right up there with Baltimore.
Back before we moved back to Chicago, I noticed a huge uptick on social media of people in NYC saying how dangerous it is, how crappy it is, etc etc. A lot of them were residents or former residents, but a lot were people who've never been there and just giving it crap. It reminded me of how Chicago started getting crap 10 to 15 years ago. It is pretty crazy. There was a video the other day shared by a far right media group on Twitter claiming that SoHo and TriBeCa now have tons of drug addicts and homeless on the streets. So many bad comments on the video. But it was of the scene around Canal St with all the vendors selling knock off goods. It's been like that for years. Just blatant misinformation campaign going on in a number of cities. I am kind of glad it's not ONLY Chicago. We only see the news here, but NYC has also lost some pretty major financial firm HQ in the last year just like here for similar reasons.