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Originally Posted by Keith P.
That entire thing was quite bizarre, between the hit-and-run poster who arrived with guns blazing and was here for a short time before disappearing when not everyone agreed with him, and the cycling activist who seemed unable to grasp why everyone would not fall into lockstep with his views. Not much you can do with certain people and their attitudes. You have done nothing wrong. I would not worry about them.
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It was a little bizarre and unexpected for me.
To be clear, I don’t feel I’ve done anything wrong, just reconsidering how I read the room (I think if I had broken SSP rules, the mods would have stepped in). It seems like there’s an underlying anger towards anybody over 50-ish who doesn’t completely buy into today’s flavour of urbanism (or urban planning ideals), and perhaps just being older is enough. I say today’s flavour because most of us over 50 have seen urban planning ideals change many times over the years, and have no reason to believe that today’s ideals are the be all and end all - they too will eventually evolve into something else.
I can’t get into their heads to completely understand where they are coming from, but I can change how I communicate here. Perhaps I need to be more sensitive to their feelings about such topics, and just not state my opinions when they go against popular urban ideas. Or maybe just continue as normal and not worry about it. Perhaps they hate me/us because we represent (in their minds) some general whitewashed version of revisionist history that doesn’t have anything to do with how it really was, but targets “boomers” (and I’m starting to see “gen X” included) as being the cause of all their problems and thus the target of their disdain. I don’t know, and I’m finding myself caring less. I used to be about finding common ground and bringing people together, but now I feel that this very idea is probably distasteful to them.
So… I’m not sure where I go from here. Don’t want to upset people, but at the same time I don’t want to be disingenuous or dishonest. Don’t want to drive our younger, more sensitive members from the board, but then maybe this isn’t something they should participate in - other parts of SSP are much less friendly than here, in my experience. Social media in general brings out the worst in people in many cases.
On a side note, I’ve been considering starting a “Disagreement and argument” thread where people can take their fights rather than clog up the thread in which it starts. Like when halfaxed came out swinging somebody could say “take it to the disagreement thread” and let it play out there. That way, anyone who just wants to read the actual thread topic doesn’t have to wade through the garbage (a complaint of Mr halfwhatever IIRC). Just a thought, but I don’t know if it would work, or what the mods would think about it.
Anyhow… enough about that, now I’m clogging up this thread… lol. Just trying to be a responsible citizen of SSP, and honestly thinking about whether this is even a worthwhile place to spend my time and share my ideas.
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