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So you only feel safe because you have the means / are affluent enough to avoid crime ridden areas? That‘s not entirely fair.
by selfmodruntime 3y ago
So you only feel safe because you have the means / are affluent enough to avoid crime ridden areas?
That‘s not entirely fair.
- lantry 3y agoThanks for calling out privilege, but I think we should assume good faith. I don't think they were trying to say that everything is good, they're just saying the narrative isn't as simple as the media is making it look.
- ng12 3y agoDepends on what media you're reading I suppose. Quite a lot of it paints SF is a city of haves and have-nots which fits nicely into the above poster's experience.
- soundsabout 3y agoI've lived in a lot of places with, in many states, in many countries, all with different population densities and economic diversity... and that statement holds true for all of them. One of these days the sheer weight and remaining shelter of class consciousness will break through the cognitive dissonance. One of these days.
- selfmodruntime 3y agoAffluence is not always privilege. It can be hard earned.
- trog 3y ago> Affluence is not always privilege. It can be hard earned. But once you're affluent, you're almost by definition privileged, surely?
- selfmodruntime 3y agoMy Google results defined it as follows: “ A privilege is a certain entitlement to immunity granted by the state or another authority to a restricted group, either by birth or on a conditional basis”
- zenkat 3y agoSorry if it came across that way, wasn't my intent. I live in the city, and travel through all parts -- including the less desirable parts. I ride down Market every day. I go to the central library at Civic Center. I do bike loops through Candlestick. I frequent bars in the Tenderloin. So no, it's not just because I can avoid "crime-ridden areas". It's because I don't find those areas fundamentally unsafe.
- emodendroket 3y agoIt seems to me like a lot of the people claiming to feel unsafe are equally affluent.