I've lived in a big city for years now. Never seen anybody get mugged, or shot, or carjacked, despite doing activist work that often has me visiting poor minority neighborhoods.

The only time I ever really felt uneasy was when I had to walk alone at night through a neighborhood where all the businesses had bars on the windows. Worst thing that happened was a couple of people asking me for money, and they didn't give me any shit when I said I didn't carry cash.

But any time I visit the small town where I grew up there's always someone or another acting like I came back from a fucking warzone lmao

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[–] Frank@hexbear.net 12 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Pretty sure the perception that cities are very violent is entirely untrue. There are violent cities, but they, as you send, in places with truly appalling abuse and exploitation. And in America at least a lot of the violence is centered in GOP help first and second ring suburbs rather than in cities themselves.

[–] Tachanka@hexbear.net 2 points 2 years ago

Yes. I could have worded it more carefully. I guess I'm trying to say that capitalism causes both violence and urbanization, and reactionaries simply associate violence and urbanization with each other, rather than their root cause: Capitalism.