It's not the worst time ever. There, I said it. Happy? Now, are you going to say "'Not the worst time ever' can still be pretty bad and in need of fixing"?
Who do you think has been making all the progress to get us to not the worst time ever? You’re welcome, by the way.
Sorry, is the argument that public safety can’t exist in a desegregated city?
if anything, the upper castes rely on segregation to feel safer, thereby making things worse.
Most likely this is the result of our flat-footed “defund the police!” rhetoric that manifest as either explicit de-policing policies or else as unofficial pressure on police to reduce preventative policing practices like routine stops. I don’t think anyone disputes this correlation even if they don’t subscribe to the causation hypothesis.
With respect to racial segregation, I know ordinary liberals and moderates are generally on board with increased integration but I’m not sure how that will hit the I-oppose-race-mixing-but-in-a-woke-way crowd, particularly in SF?
Poverty? I would get it. But how the fact that someone is richer than you justifies shoplifting is beyond my understanding.
Maybe it’s possible to have a kind of inequality where the rich get richer without the poor getting poorer (although I suspect it would just mean that the purchasing power of a dollar falls even though the poor have as many dollars as they had before) but in practice in America I think we have the kind of inequality where the rich are getting richer and the poor are getting poorer (and more numerous).
[1] https://www.census.gov/library/publications/2020/demo/p60-27...
I'm sure it's possible to construct a measure which will show that poverty went up - as it's equally possible to show the opposite - but either will mostly likely be overfitting, i. e. hand-picking data to prove the desired point.
[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poverty_in_the_United_States
Poverty is definitely definitely going down, not up.
What if one argued that some enslaved people in 1850 Georgia were better fed than before they were kidnapped from Africa. All ok then?
And why should rich people complain if there were a revolution and they were relegated to the middle class? The middle class of 2021 live longer and have better healthcare than the kings of even 100 years ago. What rights does anyone have to anything? By what reason doed anyone have a claim to injustice?
Whether SF or NYC, inequality and racial segregation have increased, corporations build glass and steel temples of capitalism, billionaires treat the world as their lab and playground, and even the middle class hoards the world's production and labor resources from the comfort of their couches, advantages all accumulated over centuries of exploitation, colonization, slavery, genocide and ecological debt that the poor and future generations will have to pay back.
But to keep things simple, let's just consider the "anarchy" in light of where SF and NYC (shining lights on the hill of liberalism) rank in the dimension of racial segregation:
- https://gothamist.com/news/new-yorks-schools-are-still-the-m...
- https://belonging.berkeley.edu/most-least-segregated-cities
- https://belonging.berkeley.edu/roots-structural-racism
- Most major metropolitan areas have become more racially segregated, study shows: https://www.cnn.com/2021/06/21/us/housing-segregation-cities...