Originally Posted by
English
So says someone who goes to graduate school on Michigan's campus... wow, you got me!
Not.
No one except a few grouches on DetroitYES think that someone seeking higher education and living on a university campus is a permanent resident of the place they're going to school. Real Detroiters don't have this problem. Neither do my graduate school friends, who think Michigan is a backwater and plan to use this state [[and your tax dollars) for its fancy terminal degrees, and then hightail it "back to civilization"... a common phrase up here.
A divisive us vs. them mentality exists when I see recurring threads on DetroitYES like "Why won't women come into the city of Detroit?" when hundreds of THOUSANDS of women live in Detroit, or hear people say things like "well, the neighborhoods where people live are __insert fashionable hood here___." Or, heard ALL over this region, "No one actually LIVES in Detroit."
The caricaturization of the citizens of Detroit is a very, very common meme in SE Michigan, which is what set the previous poster off.... to which I say, "amen". People who have darkness in their souls ought to be exposed to the light. If you do not consider your fellow men, women, and children PEOPLE... well... of course you want to be divided from them.
I'll never forget the Free Press editorial that I read as a 12 year old growing up in DETROIT in 1989, without much personal awareness of the sickness of our region. It was a rant from a suburban woman in Roseville who said that Detroit needed to be quarantined to protect decent people from the rotting cancer within.
In retrospect, she sounded like a vocal minority of DetroitYES posters.
In this context, you couldn't be more wrong. Real Detroiters actually live in the city of Detroit... because there are still PEOPLE in the city.