Comment 86653

By highwater (registered) | Posted February 22, 2013 at 17:08:22 in reply to Comment 86647

Sometimes it's difficult to tease out pure disagreement from the majority of contrary opinions expressed on this site which so often include oft-refuted assertions, sweeping and offensive generalizations about the motives, intelligence, and employment status of 'you RTH/James N/hipster types', gross exaggerations about 'getting rid of all the cars!', ugly mischaracterizations about downtown and downtowners, strawmen arguments, etc etc.

I try not to downvote contrary opinions expressed civilly, but I must cop to being a little quick on the draw sometimes, because so few are expressed without at least one of these rhetorical delights.

As for the initial question about why Conrad's comment was downtoved, speaking as one of the downvoters, I downvoted it because I am finding Conrad's fake illiteracy increasingly offensive. It is clearly a put-on to disguise his/her authentic voice, but it is getting to the point where it is offensive to people for whom English is truly a second language, who are dyslexic, or otherwise struggle with the written word. It's the written equivalent of putting on blackface and talking in 'jive'. Enough already.

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