What a shock to the system it has been, then, to see the media and leftists on Twitter
suddenly pretending to have some great affection for Baltimore. Trump possesses a sort of reverse magnetism that causes his opponents to rush to the opposite side of whatever position he has taken — even if the position is that a city with one of the highest murder rates in the country is dangerous. After spending decades scoffing at Baltimore, or entirely ignoring it, now leftists have come heroically to its defense. The hilariously misspelled #WeAreBalitmore hashtag campaign features a bunch of people — many of whom are not from the city — explaining why it is actually a lovely place. Many of these tweets are accompanied with
pictures of the Inner Harbor, the most touristy spot in town and about as representative of Baltimore's culture as Times Square is of New York City's culture.
Ironically, though, even the relatively "safe" and "family friendly" Inner Harbor has recently seen outbursts of chaos and violence. A huge swarm of teenagers
descended on the harbor a few months ago and randomly assaulted tourists just for fun. Random assaults at the harbor are
nothing new, and the problem isn't going away. Just last week, a city employee was
brutally beaten in daylight just blocks away — the
second incident of this type in the last few weeks.
If this is what the comparatively safe parts are like, it's no surprise that the unsafe parts
look like third-world slums. With a
poverty rate of 23% and
a violent crime rate over 400% higher than the national average, Baltimore clearly fits the bill for poor and dangerous (and
rat infested, by the way). There are well over 10,000 murders, rapes, robberies, and assaults
reported in Baltimore in a given year, to go along with the 30,000 or so cases of property crime. In fact,
10 people were shot and several killed just since Trump's tweet on Saturday. Including Friday in the total, Baltimore had 13 shootings and 6 murders
in a single weekend. Meanwhile, the fire department was busy putting out
11 fires.
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