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This is so Seattle. Kid does something legal, but frowned upon. Angry mob forms on internet, spreads his personal information around and makes threats. Mob refo
by jcomis 13y ago
This is so Seattle. Kid does something legal, but frowned upon. Angry mob forms on internet, spreads his personal information around and makes threats. Mob reforms after they realize how shitty they are being and creates petition to make sure no one can do this again, ever. Meanwhile, they all go to the fancy restaurant that serves the exact same item they are so against some kid harvesting and rave about it. Seattle.
- judk 13y agoHow is that so "Seattle"? Do you even know that protesters and the diners are the same people? Or did you mean that Seattle is a city with a politically diverse population?
- rubyrescue 13y agoSeattle is a very religious city, I think he means. I grew up in the South and lived in Seattle for more than a decade and I'd describe Seattle as equally fundamentalist as the South at this point; the only difference being the religion is environmentalism.
- jcomis 13y agoIt's a thing that happens all the time in Seattle. That is, publicly decry one group for doing something, but have zero problem with another group doing nearly (or exactly) the same thing. and as a member of nwdiveclub (the local dive forum) I can say that they have zero problem discussing and participating in harvesting of ocean life.
- nmbr 13y ago> That is, publicly decry one group for doing something, but have zero problem with another group doing nearly (or exactly) the same thing. This is a description of everywhere. The only thing Seattle has a monopoly on, is talking shit about Seattle (sorry Portland, we're stealing that one too).
- jcomis 13y agoWell, true enough I guess. But living in Seattle it just (to me) seems absolutely more apparent/in your face than anywhere else I've lived.
- scotch_drinker 13y agoThis is true for almost any urban city that has lost the connection between how they think things should be and how things really are. Most urban dwellers have no concept of what it's like to take a living creature and turn it into steak. The distance between the two events is so great that they can hardly imagine it. It's true for things other than meat eating, e.g. wind farms. Everyone wants good clean energy but no one wants a wind farm in their backyard. Everyone (in Seattle) wants to eat octopus salad but no one wants to drag one from the ocean and punch it until it dies.
- ryanisinallofus 13y agoHow a comment which starts with "This is so Seattle" can recieve a single up vote is beyond me. You also fail to point out the real unique aspect of Seattle culture in your loop. "Mayer stepped down, and others took the lectern to recite their prepared remarks, which failed to acknowledge that the threat had effectively just been neutralized. Eventually, Mike Racine stood to speak, representing the Washington Scuba Alliance, whose director of conservation, Scott Lundy, first posted Mayer’s photo online. “I did want to recognize that Dylan Mayer is here today. He and his family took a lot of heat over the last week for this legal taking of an octopus. Much of that heat is vitriolic in nature and inappropriate, and Dylan, just so you know, the Scuba Alliance regrets that, and we applaud you for being here,” Racine said. The room stood and clapped. Mayer, once a nemesis of the giant Pacific octopus, had suddenly become its most visible supporter." I don't know a single city filled with people which, when presented with new information responds so positively. Seattle reacts quickly, information spreads quickly here, but people are also very open minded. More-so than anywhere else I've lived.
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- dubfan 13y agoPerhaps, but we still have our share of dense morons (the "wage theft" people, the May Day crowd, the NIMBY anti-growth types)
- ryanisinallofus 13y agoNIMBY anti-growth types are bad, but the "war on cars group" is my least favorite.