People deploy personal experience like a trump card, especially like issues on this. An urban friend and I laugh about the ultimate trump card people try to pla

People deploy personal experience like a trump card, especially like issues on this. An urban friend and I laugh about the ultimate trump card people try to play - human feces, a blatent attempt to arouse maximal emotions of disgust, and bypass any rationality (how do you know it's human? How closely did you examine it :D ? Did you take it home at test it?). Again, never seen it myself - as far as I know!. Right? It's rude to question someone's personal experience; that's what makes it such an awesome trump card. But I'm also not going to stand quietly any more and let the disinformation BS pass. I don't know your experience. I know cities, and it's very hard to believe most of these reports on HN are true. > police brutality, racism or sexism A great signal of this stuff, the equivalency facade. Those things are the powerful abusing the vulnerable, a serious concern that oppresses and kills people. The vulnerable discomfitting the powerful - with human feces! - y'know, suck it up buttercup. Not a crisis. > you may have intuitions about where and when to go or not to go, and how to act to discourage troublemakers from approaching. Actually, my well-developed intuition is that you can go anywhere, talk to anyone, and you'll be fine. People live in these neighborhoods their whole lives are 99% are fine. I mean, read the room a little - whatever neighborhood you're in, if someone looks like they are upset or busy, don't be some rude idiot. Just be a human being. Don't look tense and people won't be afraid of you and react badly. Act nervous and they'll be nervous. > You may just look not as the type to mess with. Actually, people talk to me all the time. It's just people.