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> Just say you won’t go to US urban environments. We get it. I grew up in pilsen which was gang controlled 'no go zone' until it got gentrified over last 1-2 d
by dangwhy 3y ago
> Just say you won’t go to US urban environments. We get it.
I grew up in pilsen which was gang controlled 'no go zone' until it got gentrified over last 1-2 decades on the east side. We knew which gangs controlled which areas, we are only a few blocks away from El Chapo's 'The Pilsen twins' family home ( never saw them though) . People who live here and raise families here know where 'no go zones' are and stay away from. If you visit any local here for a few you will get a lecture about which areas are 'no go' gang controlled zones ( south of cermak and west of western).
Ofcouse, you can 'go' to gentrified restaurants and coffee shops on 18th st/Thalia hall and get 'the experience' for outsiders and suburbanites. Doesn't mean there aren't no go zones in pilsen.
It frustrating to me that people who chose live in white segregated suburbs ( 'for aesthetic reasons', code for not too many non whites ) and send their kids to segregated schools are lecturing us what words to use and what to call ourselves. I personally detest these white ppl more than Tucker Carlson types. Yes they are 'no go zones' and govt/community should fix it, calling them 'problematic areas' instead isn't a fix.
I didn't invoke any 'rhetoric'. you link shows which areas are no go zones.
https://abc7chicago.com/feature/tracking-crime-and-safety-in-your-neighborhood/12385906/ https://abc7chicago.com/feature/tracking-crime-and-safety-in...
> By that argument River North[0] is a no go zone.
you posted one solitary example. Argument isn't 'one shooting' makes no-go zone. Try to finding other examples and you'll see.
- tptacek 3y agoDude, don't call parts of Chicago "no-go zones" and then try to high-horse residential segregation. I'm up front about how my decisions have fed into our pathologies. Try to be more honest about yours.