What's "truth"? Heck: that 9/11 link not only isn't even a "truther" thing, it even contains its own built-in disdain for the "truthers". (Oh yeah, you're talking about the Park Plaza. But you see: this is why urban sensitivity isn't a tyranny-of-the-majority thing. Otherwise, McMansion aesthetics would rule--as they did in the Park Plaza reno case.)*
Look at me as a medieval fool; that is, earning a licence to be abject, in order to highlight and reflect the folly of other.
Which in this thread-trajectory case, means the folly of overinsisting upon destructive "glitz" as a panacea for "fixing" Bloor. Re my earlier metaphor, I'm the scoundrel who tells Big Moose that Reggie kissed Midge--it may not be the most humane way of stopping Reggie in his tracks, but it's the most fun way. So I'm a sociopath. Big deal.
And when it comes to "human rights" (I suppose, re the racism/homophobia issue),
this is one of the most exhilarating cartoon experiences than ever. Maybe it merits being carefully contextualized; but it certainly doesn't merit being banned.
Hey, if you want, we can take this conversation off-board, and meet in person. Either I'll inspire you, or I'll molest you...
*Edit: oh, and if you want proof it's more than a mere narrow/marginal/lone-culture-war, here's someone who'd more likely take my side than yours on what happened to the Park Plaza addition.