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Re:Broken: What the Hell Happened in East New York? by simplemath on Friday April 08, 2016 @03:01PM (#11457005)
You DID though, implying that it's the community that needs to take more concerted better action on its own, to reverse 100 years of endemic sociopolitical dysfunction.

It's basic libertarian boilerplate bullshit.

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Re:Broken: What the Hell Happened in East New York? by pjlegato on Friday April 08, 2016 @03:06PM (#11457037)
You are, again, putting words into my mouth.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Straw_man

I said nothing at all about the community needing to do anything whatsoever. I was talking about the article, not the community.

I also very explicitly said that all the various outside forces that the author blames for these problems are probably true.

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Re:Broken: What the Hell Happened in East New York? by mistermann on Friday April 08, 2016 @03:08PM (#11457051)
You think a community taking action on its own to better itself is a bad idea?
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Re:Broken: What the Hell Happened in East New York? by wildmusings on Friday April 08, 2016 @03:34PM (#11457258)
Every successful group in history has gotten there by assuming the victim-position and being saved by wealthy activists. /s
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