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Originally Posted by Webby
It's an amazing world out there with plenty amazing people - who don't have a blindness or the usual "hate syndrome" around here - in fact, the total opposite.
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Actually Webby, you haven't been entirely fair in assessing this thread, because the hate started with the first post and people responded to it. Let me explain. If minusonebit wrote this as the thread topic:
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Title: I'm moving to Argentina!!!
Subject: I found a great place to live, I absolutely love it here and you wouldn't believe the low rent I'm paying! Check out these places I found on Craigslist....
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Now, do you see the difference in tone that would create? He would have been congratulated on his move, he would have had best wishes tossed at him, and that would have been that.
He started the "hate syndrome" and people knee-jerked reacted to it. Why wouldn't they? I don't think America is a cesspool, in fact I'm going to turn 33 years old in August, I own (paid off the mortgage by the time I was 30) a rather nice house on Long Island, I have no trouble paying my bills, and I happen to live in one of the highest taxed areas in America, but it doesn't matter to me because I make more than enough money to support myself and have a very nice lifestyle. Yes, my quality of living is very good in fact. Now, why would anyone readily agree that their country is a cesspool if that's not their experience?
Now, if he had posted the message I wrote, with no hate, no malice to a system he couldn't thrive in, well...would he have gotten the reaction he had gotten? If he did, then I would completely agree with you, but since he didn't I can say that you turned your blinders on to how the hate ball started rolling
