Oh man everything about this story is blindingly white (Chagrin Falls is both in the literal demographic sense and in the broader cultural sense quite possibly the whitest place in the United States)https://twitter.com/jeffsleasman/status/1268295919235207171 …
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Two things: 1) It is incredibly, staggeringly obvious there will never be any "marauding band of looters" in Chagrin Falls (or Avon, or Beachwood, or any other "outer ring" suburb) 2) It is exactly those places that most richly deserve it These two facts are inseparable
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White people sucked the lifeblood from all of America's formerly great cities like a swarm of mosquitoes and then retreated, bellies full, to the stagnant puddles of the hinterland to lay their eggs
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They point and tsk as the dying husk collapses on itself in poverty and riots and crime while they sit on their dragon hoard of loot like it has nothing to do with them I regret every second of every minute of every hour of every day I spent trying to make my way in that world
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Anyway these nightmares of death and destruction are born of guilty conscience mostly It's because you can't go to such great material lengths to protect your ill-gotten gains and not have some dim awareness they were ill-gotten
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They ran as far away as they could get, they're willing to commute 45 minutes in the snow and hail in the winter just so they can "keep their families safe" from the city whose economy pays their salary And they still think they "rep Cleveland" with the "Rust Belt chic" thing
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God don't get me started
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