Your last paragraph comes across as a bit of a dog whistle…

Yeah. This is terrible, OP, but what point are you trying to make with your commentary?

I think we know

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Who has been saying that? I just keep hearing about how he’s a quack of a doctor, not a resident of PA, and shills for fake medical products. Oh, and he kills animals and has no experience in government. But maybe I’m not seeing it because I don’t watch fX news, oan, and the like.

It's a fact that the scumbag who murdered Karen Hurwitz, the guy who killed 11 people at Tree of Life, and the teens who recently assaulted a police officer at the bus stop near Starbucks on Murray Ave, were not from Squirrel Hill. What I said is 100% true. I don't understand why some people find that offensive. I happen to be interested in the truth. If some people find that offensive, that's on them, not me.

My point is that I have lived in Squirrel Hill my entire life, and the people who live in this neighborhood are kind and decent. The violent crime that's happening here is being caused by people from other neighborhoods. That is a fact. It is the truth.

I'm not voting for Oz. I'm a libertarian.

I'm a vegetarian and a libertarian. I'm not voting for Oz.

If a random person moved to sq hill a month ago, are they from sq hill? You’re using a zip code as a way of life or something.

The scumbag who murdered 11 people at Tree of Life is white. So how is my comment like a dog whistle?

More of a Ron Paul guy. Got it.

No, they are not from Squirrel Hill. But they do live in Squirrel Hill. Your point is valid. That being said, a lot of people who live here, have lived here for their entire life. Back when the Squirrel Hill Giant Eagle used to be open 24 hours, I liked to go grocery shopping at 3 A.M. And I don't drive. I've always felt perfectly safe, walking alone, even in the middle of the night. It's so calm and peaceful. This is generally a very, very safe neighborhood.

I actually wrote in Ron Paul for President in 2008 because I thought the official Libertarian Party candidate was not libertarian enough.

And here's a reason why I'm a libertarian. I really, really don't understand why most black people voted for this racist:

https://web.archive.org/web/20190914095205/https://www.nytimes.com/2019/06/27/us/politics/joe-biden-crime-bill-mass-incarceration.html

Joe Biden on Crime and Mass Incarceration

During the ’80s and ’90s, Mr. Biden helped shepherd a string of bills that transformed the criminal justice system — and, experts say, hurt America’s black communities.

June 27, 2019

As Joseph R. Biden Jr. makes his third run for the White House, he is being pressed to answer for his role in legislation that criminal justice experts say helped lay the groundwork for the mass incarceration that has devastated America’s black communities.

During the 1980s and 1990s, when Mr. Biden was a senator from Delaware, he and other leaders of the powerful Senate Judiciary Committee helped fashion a string of bills that overhauled the country’s crime laws.

Among the most significant were: the Comprehensive Crime Control Act of 1984, which established mandatory minimum sentences for drug offenses; the 1986 Anti-Drug Abuse Act, which imposed harsher sentences for possession of crack than for possession of powder cocaine; and the Violent Crime Control and Law Enforcement Act of 1994, which was essentially a catchall tough-on-crime bill.

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https://web.archive.org/web/20210101105655/https://www.nytimes.com/2019/06/25/us/joe-biden-crime-laws.html

‘Lock the S.O.B.s Up’: Joe Biden and the Era of Mass Incarceration

He now plays down his role overhauling crime laws with segregationist senators in the ’80s and ’90s. That portrayal today is at odds with his actions and rhetoric back then.

June 25, 2019

Now, more than 25 years later, as Mr. Biden makes his third run for the White House in a crowded field of Democrats – many calling for ambitious criminal justice reform — he must answer for his role in legislation that criminal justice experts and his critics say helped lay the groundwork for the mass incarceration that has devastated America’s black communities. That he worked with segregationists to write the bills — an issue that recently dominated the political news and seems likely to resurface in Mr. Biden’s first debate on Thursday – has only added to his challenge. So has the fact that black voters are such a crucial Democratic constituency.

I’m betting anything the “local restaurant” is the Starbucks that all of the Taylor kids take over before and after school. There is usually a cop stationed outside there in the mornings and afternoon now because of how rowdy they get.

I’m so sick of awful parents here. Why does it seem like the majority of major crimes lately is being committed by children?

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They can’t afford the free health care offered through Medicaid. Sure.

I never understood the people who use the “these criminals don’t live here” response when crime happens in their neighborhood.

Who cares where they live? If you are getting robbed would you feel better if your neighbor was doing it? The red flag is where the crime is happening not where the criminal goes home to rest his head

It seems like you are really saying that you don’t want outsiders in your neighborhood which is a very privileged way of thinking. Maybe build a wall around squirrel hill?

Im willing to blame the kids then too. Not excuse them based on the things you listed.

Having anxiety and depression doesn’t mean you get a pass for raping a special needs kid in the bathroom of a restaurant. Like I’m sorry this generation has had a rough few years, but that’s no excuse for abhorrent behavior.

Oh I 100% agree. I can see how my comment could’ve been construed as excusing this crime and I apologize as that was not my intent at all.

Kind of elitist....but whatever.

Which racist do you think black people should have voted for?

I'm happy to have the 99.9% of visitors to Squirrel Hill who are law abiding. You do raise a good point.

It's not about money. I myself do not own a car or a smart phone, and I live in a one bedroom apartment.

I have never understood why most black people vote for the party of slavery, the Ku Klux Klan, Jim Crow, school segregation, redlining, Japanese internment, Robert Byrd, and Ralph Northam.

Why do you keep volunteering all this personal information about yourself? Nobody cares.

It’s an interesting question. Democrats were 100% the party of racism in the 1800s, while Republicans were the party of Lincoln and abolition and civil rights. So what changed? If you’re really curious, you can read about the Dixiecrats, and the “southern strategy”. It’s interesting history.

Yep, started in the Starbucks bathroom and moved to a vacant building next door.

I know about the southern strategy. But the fact remains that after Robert Byrd started his own KKK chapter and recruited 150 of his friends and family members to join, he later got elected to the U.S. Senate as a Democrat. And if he hadn't died, he would still be in office as a Democrat. Hillary Clinton even referred to him as her good friend and mentor. Byrd never changed his party affiliation to Republican.

Democrat Ralph Northam said it was indeed him in a racist photograph from college, but he wasn't sure if he was the guy in the KKK outfit, or the guy in blackface. And he never changed his affiliation to Republican either.

Joe Biden never changed his affiliation to Republican after creating his racist crime bill.

Democrats are also the party that thinks black people are too stupid to get into college without special racial preferences, despite the fact that there are a lot of very intelligent, very bright black people who did very, very well in high school, and who are perfectly capable of getting into college based 100% on merit.

I suspect, if you look around, you can also find an example or two of Republicans being racist.