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Can you spend some time pointing out a few of the specific inaccuracies from your perspective?

hunterb123 5y ago
I will try to, but it's an overwhelming amount of generalizations, characterizations, and talking points. I mainly wanted to voice my disdain and alert others to take what he said with a grain of salt. For now, I would reference you to other comments that have disputed parts of what he said: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31129696 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31129696 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31129451 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31129451 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31129728 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31129728
- TulliusCicero 5y ago
  > https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31129451 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31129451 This is your idea of a good comment? > Hi there. I guess you are having a day of bad luck or something, cause you managed to get me to reply to you. heh. > I'm basically the walking oxymoron of your example. I was raised rurally, and am more educated than many city slicks. I'm not religious, or poor. Not rich, but not destitute. And as far as my political leanings go, I figure I'm above all of you, because the center was killed by extremists, so there is nothing left but to act better than the rest of you. I feel like my eyeballs are already about to roll back out of my skull, and that's just the first two paragraphs!
leetcrew 5y ago
I'm guessing the part about being unfriendly to non-white people is a big part of what's offensive. may or may not be true, but people tend to react poorly to sweeping negative judgments about the place where they live. on top of that, the analysis of how roads and water work is not quite right. the overall point about the tax base death spiral is true though. it's really hard to wind down infrastructure that's been built out to support a certain population size. this happens in cities too, it's a major issue in baltimore, for example.

I will try to, but it's an overwhelming amount of generalizations, characterizations, and talking points. I mainly wanted to voice my disdain and alert others to take what he said with a grain of salt. For now, I would reference you to other comments that have disputed parts of what he said: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31129696 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31129696 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31129451 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31129451 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31129728 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31129728

TulliusCicero 5y ago
> https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31129451 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31129451 This is your idea of a good comment? > Hi there. I guess you are having a day of bad luck or something, cause you managed to get me to reply to you. heh. > I'm basically the walking oxymoron of your example. I was raised rurally, and am more educated than many city slicks. I'm not religious, or poor. Not rich, but not destitute. And as far as my political leanings go, I figure I'm above all of you, because the center was killed by extremists, so there is nothing left but to act better than the rest of you. I feel like my eyeballs are already about to roll back out of my skull, and that's just the first two paragraphs!

leetcrew 5y ago

I'm guessing the part about being unfriendly to non-white people is a big part of what's offensive. may or may not be true, but people tend to react poorly to sweeping negative judgments about the place where they live. on top of that, the analysis of how roads and water work is not quite right. the overall point about the tax base death spiral is true though. it's really hard to wind down infrastructure that's been built out to support a certain population size. this happens in cities too, it's a major issue in baltimore, for example.