No, The Wire would not be made today and nor would anything else, it seems.
That aside, at least one purpose of The Wire was to highlight the ongoing and endemic political corruption and incompetence that has blighted Baltimore – and by extension all Democrat-run cities – for decades. Yet when Trump highlighted this corruption and incompetence a few months ago the creator of the show, needless, to say, attacked Trump.
Trump called Baltimore a “disgusting, rat and rodent infested mess”. Simon responded that “the president is ‘literally’ a simplistic, racist moron”. Why? Because the latter was ignoring the racism, the white flight to the suburbs and resultant inner city decline, and the drug war and mass incarceration policies. In sum “all of modern U.S. history about which your kind stays mute”.
The white flight to the suburbs is a perfectly rational response to the dysfunction that seems to have afflicted most inner cities run on progressive lines. The pertinent question – one you don’t even notice you’ve posed – is WHY is that “decline” inevitable? What about the wonders of “vibrant diversity” – why aren’t the new white-free inner cities now contented, just, brotherly paradises?
Why would any law abiding person or business remain in a city such as Baltimore, Detroit or so many others when there is corruption and criminality all around them? What ‘my kind’ wants is for people of all colours and backgrounds to is make their way on basis of their own merits and character. Sadly, this will never happen while the educating systems are in the grip of leift-wiing teaching unions and the cities are ruled by Democrats.
And if whites move back into the cities, it’s decried as gentrification, which is also “racist.” Note that white progressives, as well as Asians, resist living in these areas, as do Mexican-Americans in LA.
Why would people have a problem living there? Crime, litter, constant loud arguments with threats of violence. I note all those who decry white flight, never even landed in the nabes in the first instance, no less stayed long enough to eventually flee.
Well, nothing’s ever going to be made unless we get rid of this wretched social distancing.
A Spetzari
3 years ago
the show refuses to offer up any kind of simple narrative to explain the problems besetting the city
Might just be your wording – but that answers itself. The reason the show is so highly acclaimed is because it ably displays the multiple factors and issues at play in Baltimore. It is almost second to nothing in portraying the complexities of individuals acting within systems. So why would it offer up any simple narrative?
decriminalise drugs, stamp out corruption, and focus police resources on the most powerful gangsters, rather than on petty criminals.
None of those are particularly ‘progressive’ at all, except the ‘decriminalise drugs’ – which i think you have misread completely. The show shows brilliantly how that particular house of cards came crashing down. Crime is reduced across the district, but at the expense of utterly condemning a section of society. I would not read its portrayal of a post-apocalyptic hell on earth section of the community as being pro abolition in the slightest.
No, The Wire would not be made today and nor would anything else, it seems.
That aside, at least one purpose of The Wire was to highlight the ongoing and endemic political corruption and incompetence that has blighted Baltimore – and by extension all Democrat-run cities – for decades. Yet when Trump highlighted this corruption and incompetence a few months ago the creator of the show, needless, to say, attacked Trump.
Trump called Baltimore a “disgusting, rat and rodent infested mess”. Simon responded that “the president is ‘literally’ a simplistic, racist moron”. Why? Because the latter was ignoring the racism, the white flight to the suburbs and resultant inner city decline, and the drug war and mass incarceration policies. In sum “all of modern U.S. history about which your kind stays mute”.
The white flight to the suburbs is a perfectly rational response to the dysfunction that seems to have afflicted most inner cities run on progressive lines. The pertinent question – one you don’t even notice you’ve posed – is WHY is that “decline” inevitable? What about the wonders of “vibrant diversity” – why aren’t the new white-free inner cities now contented, just, brotherly paradises?
Why would any law abiding person or business remain in a city such as Baltimore, Detroit or so many others when there is corruption and criminality all around them? What ‘my kind’ wants is for people of all colours and backgrounds to is make their way on basis of their own merits and character. Sadly, this will never happen while the educating systems are in the grip of leift-wiing teaching unions and the cities are ruled by Democrats.
And if whites move back into the cities, it’s decried as gentrification, which is also “racist.” Note that white progressives, as well as Asians, resist living in these areas, as do Mexican-Americans in LA.
Why would people have a problem living there? Crime, litter, constant loud arguments with threats of violence. I note all those who decry white flight, never even landed in the nabes in the first instance, no less stayed long enough to eventually flee.
The word rat was unnecessary, otherwise President Trump was spot on.
Well, nothing’s ever going to be made unless we get rid of this wretched social distancing.
Might just be your wording – but that answers itself. The reason the show is so highly acclaimed is because it ably displays the multiple factors and issues at play in Baltimore. It is almost second to nothing in portraying the complexities of individuals acting within systems. So why would it offer up any simple narrative?
None of those are particularly ‘progressive’ at all, except the ‘decriminalise drugs’ – which i think you have misread completely. The show shows brilliantly how that particular house of cards came crashing down. Crime is reduced across the district, but at the expense of utterly condemning a section of society. I would not read its portrayal of a post-apocalyptic hell on earth section of the community as being pro abolition in the slightest.