San Francisco Has Fallen
- Thread starter VicBee
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No one stopped to help him
...likely because they were afraid of becoming a victim...a common Blue city thought
Once again, it's not an either or. It would be disingenuous to deny that petty criminality in the Bay Area, the one that concerns most people, doesn't come primarily from black and brown people. The stats are overwhelming and what people do with that information is key. On the left we say it's because they're the most economically disadvantaged. On the right they say it's because they're black and brown, a racist stereotype based on statistical evidence.
We know most mass shootings in the US are committed by white males. Do we infer all white men are dangerous? No, because America is predominantly white and whites control the narrative. But most black people would beg to differ and recall many a time when whites disrespected or threatened them for their skin color. They might say whites are dangerous in the same racial stereotypes laid on them by whites.
The problem is when we are unable to take action for fear of triggering accusations of one kind or another. Go after the vagrants in the streets? Can't, they're homeless! Go after the drug dealers? Can't, they're black! Go after weapons of war? Can't, they serve to protect self and property!
SF deserves all of it. What goes around comes around and refusing to prosecute crime leads businesses to leave.
They do deserve every penny:
San Francisco saw the biggest jump in its real gross domestic product (GDP) of any large county in the U.S. for 2021, a countervailing point to the grim economic news that has predominated in recent months.
From 2020 to the end of last year, San Francisco saw an increase of 14% to its real GDP, which is a measure of the total value of goods and services produced in a specific region, adjusted for inflation. Between those two years the county saw its GDP increase from $175.9 billion to $200.5 billion
They will point fingers at each other, but both the left and right are a complete disaster. The right doesn't want to fund anything that's necessary (mental institutions, housing, etc) and the left is afraid of being too authoritarian/cruel. For the vast majority of citizens to live their best lives, for the sake of saving lives, and for the sake of the overall economy we need to look at both more public housing and having stricter laws/enforcement like Asia has when it comes to drug use, drug dealing, and panhandling. This so-called harm reduction approach is killing people and destroying local economies. Oregon's decriminalization of drugs is a complete disaster. They saw Portugal decriminalized, but didn't actually follow their model whatsoever.