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Not to mention there is nothing in his story that doesn't happen regularly in every medium to large city across the entire country.Nothing in Steve's post is 'personal history'. It's a mish-mash of vaguely sourced hearsay.Putting aside the OP commentary.
The worse case short answer is Capone era Chicago. Here in Seattle drug related shootings between rivals are common. Someone was shot during a drug deal a block from where I live.
Seattle police report that with relaxed law enforcement and prosecution policies criminals are comming here to exploit it.
Local reporting says that homeless camps are being used as fronts for urganized crime.
Recently there was a car jacking by 3 teens who drove around shooting at random.
Were @steve_bank a trans person, or a black person, or a female person, would describing his personal history as "bullshit" still be acceptable on IIDB?
I don't think it would. But he's a cis-het white male. So it is.
Stay in your place Steve! Don't get uppity!
Tom
The closest it gets to being 'personal history' is the unsupported claim of an event "a block from where I live", which might vaguely imply that it's an eyewitness account, but which context suggests is not in fact anything more than hearsay. It's noticeable that Steve makes no claim to have seen or heard anything first-hand in any part of his post; And that he provides no sources other than the vague 'Seattle police', with no link to the particular police statements, nor any indication that police statements are being quoted or even accurately summarised.
We are right not to take his word about what Seattle police did or did not report. Or about what "Local reporting" might or might not say.
Unsourced assertions about the claims of third parties that vaguely support a political stance are the very essence of bullshit, and can and should be called out as such whoever makes them.
And your insinuation that calling this bullshit out would be unacceptable on this board if it came from "a trans person, or a black person, or a female person" is bullshit too - it's unsubstantiated, defamatory, and factually wrong.
Just last week my wife heard someone walked into a house a block away and held up the occupant at gunpoint and robbed him. A couple months ago a guy another block away woke up to find a dead body in his driveway.
I've told the story a couple years ago about the 17 yr old gang banger that lived next door to us. He'd have parties in the front yard 'til all hours of the night. Someone stood in my front yard and emptied their 9mm into the crowd. Luckily only one person was hit. A few weeks later a drive by occurred again towards the same house.
Steve's story is nothing special... at all.