Originally Posted by
MichMatters
When you want to be taken seriously in writing or in speech, what you don't do is drop rhetorical bomb after rhetorical bomb, and then subsequently expect people to respond thoughtfully when you're not trying to be thoughtful, yourself.
This man had no intention of writing a thoughtful critique of Detroit. What he wanted to do was to pack as much inflammatory language into his short letter-to-the-editor as he could to illicit a negative response, and he succeeded. He doesn't give a damn about the city, and it showed.
He obviously didn't want to be taken seriously, so I see no need to entertain his critique as anything more than the dime-a-dozen pieces of crap that get published in the Metro rags and on their forums.
If anyone is trotting this out, here, looking for a positive response to that letter, they'd best shop it elsewhere. I'm sure it'd get rave reviews at St%rmfr$nt, or some teabagger site. When all they can ever muster is "socialist this and socialist that" code, you know that they don't have an argument.