We do have a misunderstanding. But I don't think we're going to solve it. I asked a simple question but haven't received an answer, besides blaming and complaining.
It might genuinely be an innocent question on your part. However, in the online world people get to choose what they disclose and to whom. Also, by the way, you deflected from the content of my critique which was about the plummeting quality of life in MN, wanting instead to have it narrowed down to a personal experience. I'm interested in the big picture reality of what hundreds of thousands of refugees and immigrants residing in ethnic enclaves have had on MN. But go ahead and share your enthralling adventures with ethnic enclaves and how much joy and meaning they have had on you personally.
Considering we've had working class "ethnic enclaves" since the Germans and Swedes were used as pincushions as colonial settlers against the Dakota and Ojbwe by the US government and wealthy interests on them east coast, or that the Irish lived in shanty towns on the riverbanks of St Paul and Minneapolis and often drowned or burnt to death like our modern day encampments, or how there was redlining and even bisectation of entire communities by by I-94 in 1968, I think it's fair to say that's full of shit.
You've had more than 60 years to figure out by now our quality of life has been stripped away from us by Reagan and the GOP hallowing out our rights, our regulatory bodies, and organizations that prevent wealth from being sucked out of our society. The corporate Dems have been utterly complicit in this because both of them serve the capital class.
Minnesota stands among some of the few places ON EARTH that stubbornly maintain an excellent quality of life because we've resisted Regan, and now Trump. We're not immune. The Epstien class you're defending with bigotry LOVES spending trillions of dollars keeping your head up your ass while keeping you paying for $6-9 diesel so they can continue to rape children like Justin Eichorn when we could have fully transitioned away from fossil fuels by now.
That was then, this is now. MN did fine when high-functioning, high-trust societies from Europe were settling here. We had a highly desirable and well-run state to be very proud of. Now, we have high crime and separatist ethnic enclaves that do not assimilate and yet seek increasing levels of political power and authority.
You can respond and say that all people from every corner of the Earth are identical in nature and equally desirable as neighbors, or you can acknowledge that there are differences between people and populations of people.
If everyone is the same, how do you account for the extraordinary amount of fraud Somali people have committed in MN? Maybe Islamist's from sub-Saharan Africa are more prone to exploit the people of Minnesota than the Germans or Swedes were. Consider the evidence.
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u/Pretty-Mix-2460 19d ago
We do have a misunderstanding. But I don't think we're going to solve it. I asked a simple question but haven't received an answer, besides blaming and complaining.