Posted by:
Lot's Wife
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Date: December 10, 2019 11:54AM
> This
> thread isn't about . . . racism etc.
Actually, it is about racism.
That's what happens when people inadvertently compare places like "Detroit and Baltimore," which you describe as "two cities with famously high crime rates" and places like "Utah. . . Nebraska or Wyoming." Because in today's political climate Detroit and Baltimore are used as code for minority-dominated communities and Utah, Nebraska and Wyoming are considered "white." In that sense people sometimes reveal some pretty nasty racism through their choice of places to compare.
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Consider this very similar gem* from fly-by poster RianL a couple of years ago, which juxtaposed Utah and
"Compton, Detroit or LA where kids grow up without their fathers and there moms have multiple partners and kids from different relationships. They are raised to think "gangsta" culture, drugs, violence, and foul language/premarital sex is okay. They don't value education or respect of law enforcement. As a result, those neighborhoods are violent, impoverished, and devoid of humanity.
While I may not agree on everything Mormons do, you can't deny the good they do for our communities."
Have you ever met RianL? Because your description and his are very similar. The only significant difference is your substitution of Baltimore for Detroit, Baltimore having become the dog whistle du jour among right-wing cognoscenti over the last couple of years due to a change in rhetoric among leading American politicians.
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> There sure are a lot of bullies on RfM!
There certainly are. That's why the board and admins try to discourage racist bullying whenever possible.
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https://www.exmormon.org/phorum/read.php?2,1968803,1968803#msg-1968803Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 12/10/2019 11:57AM by Lot's Wife.