Walking America: Washington, DC (Anacostia and Alexandria)
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Walking America: Washington, DC (Anacostia and Alexandria)
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#2I do not remember where I read it, but looking at it from the outside, I always have to think back on the quote:
"Republicans don't like people who are different and want them to be somewhere else. Democrats don't like people who are different and want them to be someone else."
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#4The only uptight, hall-monitor-like people I know here in Alexandria are the few Republicans who have a chip on their shoulder about being Republican. Maybe taking a single walk through a town doesn't give one the insight one thinks it does.
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#5The only uptight, hall-monitor-like people I know here in Alexandria are the few Republicans who have a chip on their shoulder about being Republican. Maybe taking a single walk through a town doesn't give one the insight one thinks it does.
people who are the opposite of uptight are usually okay with unimportant disagreements, like letting other people be wrong in their harmless opinions.
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#6The only uptight, hall-monitor-like people I know here in Alexandria are the few Republicans who have a chip on their shoulder about being Republican. Maybe taking a single walk through a town doesn't give one the insight one thinks it does.
people who are the opposite of uptight are usually okay with unimportant disagreements, like letting other people be wrong in their harmless opinions.
"I know you are, but what am I?" Is your argument?
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#7The only uptight, hall-monitor-like people I know here in Alexandria are the few Republicans who have a chip on their shoulder about being Republican. Maybe taking a single walk through a town doesn't give one the insight one thinks it does.
people who are the opposite of uptight are usually okay with unimportant disagreements, like letting other people be wrong in their harmless opinions.
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#8As a native of the DC area familiar with one of these neighborhoods and living right next to the other, the author's descriptions are pleasantly familiar to me.
The author seems eager to fit the neighborhoods into his sociological and political analysis so some parts seem reductive but he's rather overt and honest about it. The author seems impressed with his social analysis and political opinions and I'm glad he has them but not sure how much I agree.
In my positive assessment, it doesn't hurt that I agree with some of his general sentiments: Anacostia is mostly homey and run-down, not brimming with menace; Crystal City is dominated by the offices of corporations and doesn't have much going for it, e.g.
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#9Earlier quoted context omitted.
people who are the opposite of uptight are usually okay with unimportant disagreements, like letting other people be wrong in their harmless opinions.
"I know you are, but what am I?" Is your argument?
You are doing a wonderful job of letting someone be wrong on the internet.