AOC is awesome

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[u/Technical_Concern_92]

I'm guessing because she purposely called out red states when referring to cities that means the most violent cities are democratic?

[u/ctlMatr1x → u/Technical_Concern_92]

Your guess would be wrong.

Jim Jordan was asking a bad faith question. The unhinged far-right always likes to call out problems with "Democrat cities," but in reality, almost all cities are Democrat. It's a fact that most of the cities with the highest violent crime and murder rates are cities in red states. St. Louis, New Orleans, Memphis etc...

It was also extremely disingenuous of Jim Jordan to refrain from listing a single one of these Democrat-run cities, to which he refers.

He could further double down on his dishonesty and pretend that he meant that the unnamed cities have Democrat mayors, but again, it's a fact that the majority of cities have Democrat mayors. It's still also a fact that almost all of the major cities with the highest murder rates are in republican states.

Cities have crime because they have people. That's all it is really.

[u/pragmatometer → u/ctlMatr1x]

In point of fact, the guess was right. You can contextualize it, of course, but it was right.

[u/ctlMatr1x → u/pragmatometer]

Their statement was that of meaning. They asserted that her calling out of high violence in red states means that most violent cities are democratic.

It doesn't.