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what a strange definition of the word "community" (or even "home") you must have to think this term does not apply perfectly to an area where people are living?

sorry dang here's that indignant thing you told me about...but seriously

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I took it as them saying the whole phrase “forgotten community” is painting over the neglect the area has experienced. Not that it isn’t a community but that it isn’t a “forgotten community”. You don’t end up with derelict buildings and a transient population, stray dogs and a mob graveyard over decades by being forgotten. The city government clearly knows about it. They make promises every decade or so. The FBI discovered the mob was using it etc. it wasn’t forgotten it has just been deprioritized or neglected. In fact I’m surprised the article didn’t go in harder on the city’s ineptitude. Forgotten community is a euphemism in that sense.

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