> I’m stating the fact. How is that a fact? Perhaps you meant 'figuratively falling apart'. How much of the city have you visited? How much do you know about t

> I’m stating the fact. How is that a fact? Perhaps you meant 'figuratively falling apart'. How much of the city have you visited? How much do you know about the place and what's going on there? I think the idea that any (inhabited) city in the world is 'literally' falling apart is a stretch, but if it were to be applicable somewhere, it would have to be a place that was recently ravaged by wars or earthquakes or tsunamis or something like that. I suspect what you meant was along the lines of 'I was there once and I didn't like it and I don't like that the mayor wants to rename the street, so fuck all the people who live there and their shitty city'. This is why I found it offensive. > It seems quite relevant in the light of officials trying to ride the hype train. It is precisely and completely irrelevant. If anything it's an example of whataboutism [1]. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whataboutism https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whataboutism