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Woman yells ‘tourist’ before ramming Key West cyclist with minivan, fleeing, cops say
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The discussion was 'the motivation for this action is x', followed by 'talking about the motivation at all is weird'. The minutiae isn't relevant to my initial point.
This seems to boil down to what is considered 'weird' behaviour. I guess I have a different view than you do as to what is strange to have a discussion about.
It will always be weird to defend tourists and that's obviously all this was. Maybe you can point to any value of the discussion that I missed? "Wah tourists are good for you" is not valuable imo
See I think we have different interpretations of the parent comment. You've read it as a critique of tourism and consider it "obviously all this was".
I read that same comment and see the pondering thought of 'why not move if you dislike it so much?' in the same way I would if this were a story of a tenth generation Texan being angry about the heat and expressing that anger via some violent measure.
The comment doesn't read as 'tourism is the problem' to me at all, which has been why I've described it as a comment on motivation and see it as a valid discussion point. Even when I reread it and play around with where emphasis might be in the sentence if it had been spoken aloud and not written, it feels like a stretch to say it's either pro or anti tourist.
Sort of a flaw with quick off the cuff comments in a text based medium, but oh well.