The big difference is the proximity to actual diversity, when you work with and live with and see diverse people every day, you get acclimated to it and accept it as the norm;
This makes me wonder how much of the liberal/conservative divide with how seriously we take minor acts of terrorism has to do with direct experience with big cities. If you don’t live in a city, hearing about a terrorist attack in a city is probably really scary, but if you’ve actually lived in a big city, a few people dying every few years is incredibly uneventful (for comparison, 318 people were murdered in my city last year).
A century ago, before liberal social policies, this would be considered an unacceptably high level of crime. Heck, I consider Baltimore a borderline post-apocalyptic no-go zone. Although I’m sure parts of it, specifically the parts with the fewest ethnic minorities, are ok. But as Eliezer said:
if people got hit on the head by a baseball bat every week, pretty soon they would invent reasons why getting hit on the head with a baseball bat was a good thing.
Kind of like how the mayor of London said people must now accept a certain level of terrorism as ‘Part & Parcel’ of living in a big city?
This makes me wonder how much of the liberal/conservative divide with how seriously we take minor acts of terrorism has to do with direct experience with big cities. If you don’t live in a city, hearing about a terrorist attack in a city is probably really scary, but if you’ve actually lived in a big city, a few people dying every few years is incredibly uneventful (for comparison, 318 people were murdered in my city last year).
A century ago, before liberal social policies, this would be considered an unacceptably high level of crime. Heck, I consider Baltimore a borderline post-apocalyptic no-go zone. Although I’m sure parts of it, specifically the parts with the fewest ethnic minorities, are ok. But as Eliezer said: