Reply #4: As someone who's lived in all types of areas, I resent that kind of generalization too. [View All]

[eshfemme]

My mom's family is a small rural farm family in Taiwan and I lived there for an extended period of time. I also grew up in NYC and then went to college in a suburban/exurban area. So yeah, it's fucking stupid to try to say one group of people who live in a type of community is better.

It's dumb because we're all interconnected-- the cities couldn't evolve without the support of the rural farms that provide the resources possible to maintain such a concentration of the population. At the same time, the suburban and rural areas don't do well if their cities are allowed to die off.

When you champion "small towns" at the cost of cities, it's a type of snobbery that is damaging because it is promoting a counterproductive view that would lead in the ultimate destruction of those "small towns" that you are touting. So yeah, Sarah Palin and those "patriotic" "family values" Republicans who say this bullshit are fucking idiots.