This is classic Republican messaging — fear minorities so that you don’t notice the rich folks picking your pocket

  • silence7OP
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    11 days ago

    Because the old folks who own stuff grew up during a period of ever-rising crime rates as cases of mild lead poisoning from gasoline caused a huge increase in violent crime. They don’t get that it’s somewhere around as safe as it was during the 1950s.

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      8 days ago

      And they certainly don’t understand that safety has emerged from better public services but so it goes.