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“Must be nice where you live. In the meantime we’re dealing with real world issues on the ground. Not everyone can afford to live where you do.”

Sorry you think everyone else must live in a slum. Sounds like class warfare and not reality. Reality is that no one needs to live in a ghetto. No one. And, yeah, it is nice where I live. I chose wisely. So, go ahead, say something racist and tell me I am a “typical rich white guy”, and I’ll proudly say, yes, I am. Smart, educated, responsible, chose where to live wisely by getting an education and ensuring my family is able to live in a nice place and not a ghetto.

Sorry you think everyone else must live in a slum.
***Where did I say that? Hmmmm? NO, I didn’t. If you’re so smart, why can’t you avoid the simplest of straw arguments?

Sounds like class warfare and not reality.
***And your response sounds like elitism.

Reality is that no one needs to live in a ghetto. No one.
***We can have this discussion on some other thread, Smart White Man.

And, yeah, it is nice where I live. I chose wisely.
***Glad to hear it. Not everyone has the same choices you do. Get over yourself.

So, go ahead, say something racist and tell me I am a “typical rich white guy”,
***You’re a typical rich white guy

and I’ll proudly say, yes, I am. Smart, educated, responsible,
***Did your parents pay for even $10 of your post secondary education? If not, that puts you in the rarefied atmosphere where I am, the 99%ers. When you came home with good grades, did your parents ignore you or did they praise you? They praised you. If you spent some time outside of your little enclave you’d notice there are people who don’t have the same level of resources that you did. Some people manage to get through school even when their parents didn’t praise them. But I can tell that doesn’t describe you. No, if your parents ignored you with the school stuff, you’d be smoking dope right now in a slum. If you want to have this discussion, open your own class warfare thread, Mr. Rich White Guy.

chose where to live wisely by getting an education and ensuring my family is able to live in a nice place and not a ghetto.
***Too bad your education didn’t bring you up to speed on the avoidance of straw arguments and other classic fallacies. I can see you’re no egalitarian.

"Sorry you think everyone else must live in a slum. Sounds like class warfare and not reality. Reality is that no one needs to live in a ghetto. No one. And, yeah, it is nice where I live. I chose wisely. So, go ahead, say something racist and tell me I am a “typical rich white guy”, and I’ll proudly say, yes, I am. Smart, educated, responsible, chose where to live wisely by getting an education and ensuring my family is able to live in a nice place and not a ghetto."

...too many variables now. This is not the 1960s. There's no class war perpetrated by labor (although rich importers might be questionable). Most rich folks are liberals. Most rich neighborhoods contain people of various colors. Crime is high in most rich neighborhoods--especially where meth is common, even in rural areas. Education today does not guarantee wealth. Stocks are falling due to fraudulent loans and foreclosures (1970s deja vu on a world scale). Employers are moving hordes of third-worlders in to replace Americans.

That said, I'm in favor of capitalism where there's enough concern for national security. But we need to reestablish older moral standards, and our leaders should again set better examples for all. We should not be required to pay false respect at work to bosses' family pathologies (anti-family pathologies supported by much corporate funding).

There's a need for self defense plans in any kind of neighborhood. Places like Orange County are also ridden with crime (including neo-Nazis and enemy sympathizers).