02-17-2021, 08:57 AM
(02-16-2021, 03:15 AM)Classic-Xer Wrote:(02-14-2021, 07:44 PM)pbrower2a Wrote: Let me tell you about a city that I know and like. It's actually a suburb of Detroit, Michigan, even bordering on "Detritus, Michigan".* It's Dearborn, and it actually borders the worst giant city in America. But go to Dearborn and you will notice that it is quite livable. Michigan Avenue (US 12) goes through downtown Detroit past the site of the now-demolished Tiger Stadium into a sleazy mockery of a community (southwest Detroit) full of sexually-oriented businesses and liquor stores. Prostitutes and drug dealers ply their trade, and drunks and addicts wander about. Cross into Dearborn and you see a Dearborn police car, a deterrent to the social dregs of southwest Detroit coming into town. Wander into Dearborn drunk or on drugs or dressed like a whore and you will be stopped before you get past the first kebab house, let alone a mosque. Dearborn is family-friendly, The large Arab and Muslim populations like it that way, and they impress that upon the local politicians. Alcoholic beverages aren't banned, but brawls are. I'm not much of a drinker (I can't hold my liquor as I used to) but I prefer to drink in peace.
Arab-Americans and Muslims prefer life family-friendly, and Dearborn offers that. Guess what? Many Jews, Christians, agnostics, and atheists like it that way, too.
I don't know what you mean by America, but your belligerence would clash with a small part of America called Dearborn, Michigan. It votes heavily Democratic.
*Detroit now suffers from black flight. Who would want to consign one's children to the awful Detroit Independent School District?
Anyone here live in Dearborn? So, how many Arab Americans and Muslims share the Liberal/Progressive view of me (white supremacists) without meeting me. I hope the Democratic voters who live in Dearborn aren't as dumb as you and Eric and the others otherwise a bunch of them may end up being killed over something stupid or a lie that's spread by some ignorant/careless group of Democrats believes is true these days.
I have been there. I have met plenty of Muslims. They would loathe you for your racism and religious bigotry, and rightly so. Islamic sensibilities are male chauvinist, but they do not sexualize women as you do. You remind them of their heroic villains, the Crusaders... and yes, the Crusaders were nasty people, about as many people now see Nazis and Stalinists.
Dearborn is a place of tolerance on religious identity, but not of such pathological behavior as drunkenness, drug use, and prostitution.
If you will notice, the 9/11 plotters avoided Dearborn. Maybe had they discussed some of their plots or given allusions to such while speaking in Arabic, Arab-speaking people might have figured out enough to tattle on them to the FBI. There was a terrorist plot in which some "Crusaders" of the modern sort were caught with explosives for blowing up a mosque. They got caught.
Dearborn has a low crime rate unlike its neighbor Detroit, one of the most dangerous cities in America. (the Woodward Avenue corridor that includes Beaumont Hospital, the Detroit Opera, the Fox Theater, the Detroit Museum of Art, Joe Lewis Arena, Comerica Park, Ford Field, the Vegas-quality gambling casinos, and Hitstown USA is safe -- but definitely avoid the rest of Detroit). But if you live next to a moral sewer like Southwest Detroit and want your community to be livable, you need a good police force to deter the troublemakers.
I can think of far more objectionable places than Dearborn as "waves of the future" for America in the upcoming 1T.
The ideal subject of totalitarian rule is not the convinced Nazi or the dedicated Communist but instead the people for whom the distinction between fact and fiction, true and false, no longer exists -- Hannah Arendt.