Reading things that I didn't write...
Does anyone have any clue what this lady is talking about? Seriously, it's like she's reading Housing Panic, but thinks she's reading Seattle Bubble or something. I don't get it.[url=http://blog.seattlepi.nwsource.com/realestate/archives/121268.asp#50316]Sandy Kaduce[/url] wrote:Tim--I appreciate the fact that you are willing to mix it up. That's what you were invited to do, after all. Too bad you can't seem to do it in a constructive way, or you might actually find people would be willing to listen to what you have to say.
We get somewhere around 9,000 visitors a month. We're not promoting a particularly controversial agenda here, thus, fewer readers. People love a controversy and it is the oldest tactic there is for getting lots of readers to come to a blog. The more wild-eyed ones' assertions, the more popular a site tends to become in the blogosphere. Plus, people love to villainize someone else when their own lives aren't measuring up to expecations. You seem to have quite a bit of that going on over on your site. That hate-filled, us-against-them mentality tends to make a site pretty popular too.
I had thought once of taking one of your anti-realtor posts and substituting the word "realtor" for something else--some other group that has historically been despised. It would be interesting. You level a lot of claims against us in the industry, some of which might be fair criticism. But as with all arguments that contain generalizations and stereotypes, the overall level of discussion says more about the person writing than it does about the subject.
In other words, there is a point at which a belief becomes an "ism" and your website would indicate that you are beyond that point. All isms, whether it's capitalism, socialism or bubbleism, start with the seed of a belief that may be valuable but it's the inability to tolerate opposing viewpoints that make it dangerous.
Not that I find you particularly dangerous per se. Just intolerant.
P.S. (This isn't a call to go leave antagonistic comments on that post. I'm just honestly confused by Ms. Kaduce's sentiment, and wondered if anyone had any ideas where it came from.)
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Their livelihood is at stake, and they are quick to take offense at even the mildest criticism.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Projective_identification
She's accusing you of doing what she actually does. Example: Tim promotes realtor hate talk. Yet in the comment thread, she engages in bubble hate talk.
As to the reason she's so snappy, I agree with biliruben. When she joined on the blog she was probably dreading you and the other "bubbleheads" coming over and refuting her with actual data and common sense. She may have even seen the mayhem over on some posts at RCG, where housing permabulls and realtors are routinely put in their place and was trembling in fear. So she readied up a bunch of statements she thought she would use on you and when the inevitable came she pulled the trigger too fast and too many times than was warranted in the situation. Overcompensation.
I've said all I'm going to say to her in that thread, but I do want to comment here on her reply to my request. I love how out of the five assertions I pointed out that she directed specifically at me ("too bad you can't seem to do it in a constructive way"), she was only able to come up with two posts as examples, and pretty flimsy examples at that.
Chalk up another realtor I'd never do business with. I wonder if they realize there are potential clients reading their personal attacks?
It was reported today that sales in LA dropped 50% YOY. 50%! Imagine if your business experienced that kind of drop, you'd be spiteful too.
http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/laland/