Well, nope, and a straw man - people who want to live in safe neighborhoods aren’t pussies. People who are afraid of everyone and everybody are. You’re in the latter category (“OMG! Scary black people! Scary immigrants! Scary Muslims! Scary women! Scary places like Paris!”).
At this point;(in terms of North Korea); isn’t China being the “Adult in the Room?”.
In other words; aren’t they saying that Kim Jong-Un is a Psycho Kid with NUKES that you can only push so far?
Push too far? Trap him into a corner?..And he won’t hesitate to start lobbing NUKES and sending troops into the South…his people be dammed…they are only there to Worship him and to provide him with a steady stream of young girls anyway…
Which is what I find really depressing. China has never been immature per se–coldbloodedly nationalistic and Machiavellian sure, but not immature. But they have never had the “adult babysitter” role until now, as Trump relinquished it. It’s a shift in influence and an exceedingly unwelcome one at that.
I agree, in part. This kind of assumes, though, as Adult In The Room, that they are trying to maturely and dispassionately mediate this situation for the benefit of the international community - which I’m not convinced is the case. I think China has its own agenda re: the Norks and is managing this situation to their benefit first and foremost.
So, I agree that China is playing realpolitik at the “adult” level compared to Trump’s adolescent nonsense, but I’d stop short of labeling them the Adult in the Room. I don’t think China has anyone else’s interest at heart.
There are in quite a few of the neighborhoods I lived in and worked in for half a decade. Much of establishments using bulletproof glass is for insurance purposes.
Its more along the line of blaming people whom are guilty of something, as opposed to blaming a race for something when the majority of them aren’t guilty of anything.
The vast majority of “black neighborhoods” still have a higher % of white people. The number of areas in America where blacks outnumber whites are insanely small. Why don’t poor white people shoulder any of the blame for these neighborhoods that don’t have grocery stores?
Fwiw, none of the “black neighborhoods” in my area are short of grocery stores. It’s mostly the rural areas.