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> Our interactions with them were almost universally positive ... [they'd] try to keep kids from seeing drug use As someone with kids and living in the Midwest
by dave78 4y ago
> Our interactions with them were almost universally positive ... [they'd] try to keep kids from seeing drug use
As someone with kids and living in the Midwest, I just don't even have the words to describe my reaction to this. Wow.
- bombcar 4y agoI guess we can translate it to “try not to look at the other sport team’s fans” or something
- caslon 4y agoAs someone also living in the Midwest, what's your issue with it? A bunch of people are doing a thing. They see a kid. They stop doing it while the kid is in sight, so they're spared seeing it. What could possibly be the issue? If anything, it demonstrates Midwestern values pretty well: Freedom, and a moral, not legal, code that people voluntarily follow to prevent kids from being exposed to potentially-harmful things, without any government needed to enforce it! If anything, it's more considerate than where I live, where people will openly smoke in front of children, which is arguably more harmful, because smoking has second-hand effects, unlike intravenous drug usage.
- wolverine876 4y ago> As someone with kids and living in the Midwest, I just don't even have the words to describe my reaction to this. Wow. I'm not sure what you mean: Do you live in a large Midwestern city, like Chicago, and have different experiences? Do you live in a suburban or rural environment and are surprised to hear it? Personally I spend lots of time in cities and I'm not surprised. If you don't have experience there, realize that the horror stories fit a long-term political campaign to denigrate cities in 'blue states' (note that you don't hear anything about crime in Miami, Houston, etc.), which are a political power base of a one party.
- jasonfarnon 4y agoHouston/Harris county is solidly blue
- wolverine876 4y agoRight, but the focus is on cities in blue states.