[Eelongate]

This sort of lame duplicitous apologia is little but more of the same rhetoric that got the Bay Area into this predicament in the first place. Here is my summary of the article "Sure it's bad, but actually it's not really all that bad. It's not media hysteria, but actually the media that blowing this out of proportion and you're all caring about the wrong thing. Yes it's bad for upscale shops to be robbed, but actually it's not really that bad and you're probably just a rich yuppie for caring. The police can't stop mob burglaries because the mobs are too violent, but also the mobs are just dumb kids and you shouldn't be worried about it."

He's pretending to give a shit but each time that's just a setup for him to downplay the issue and scold you for not caring about other things instead.

[TMWNN]

Similarly, as I wrote in /r/bayarea a few weeks ago in response to a post titled "At 16/25, almost 2/3 of the posts on the first page of this subreddit are about local crime. I don't think that's an accurate impression of the Bay Area":

The narrative that this post itself is part of:

* Crime is ackshaully down, not up, so...

* ... the subreddit is talking about crime too much ...

* ... and anyways, only out-of-town Nazis/Republicans/Trump voters are posting these articles ...

* ... and anyways, only big companies with insurance are being robbed, so we shouldn't care ...

* ... and anyways, slavery, white supremacy, and redlining made these benighted souls commit these victimless crimes