Whats with all the Springfield bashing

[samiam]

Is it that Jacksonville's whipping post received positive press in southern living magazine and the local population cant stand the fact that they where proved wrong about Springfield ?

The grenest house is a house already built

[civil42806]

"grenest"?   

[samiam]

oops

[reednavy]

Springfield has a stigma that it has to get rid of, a crime-ridden neighborhood filled with run down homes and homeless.

I know it is more than that, just speaking in what the general population thinks of it.

[thelakelander]

Outside of this forum, the average Jax resident thinks of Springfield how it was a decade or two or three ago (check FTU forum comments to confirm).  Within this forum, the back and forth seems to stem from different ideologies of what the neighborhood should be.  Considering most of the posters involved live or operate businesses in Springfield, the discussion is most likely an outgrowth of a gentrification battle going on.

[samiam]

I guess your right reed, I guess we still have a way to go before Springfield is looker at other places that were in decline and came back such as Williamsburg Va, Savanna Ga, Harlem NY, ECT

The greenest house is a house already built

[Dan B]

Jacksonville in general, and Springfield specifically, have a serious case of low self-esteem. I think if we keep on doing what we are doing, and stop worrying about the crap thats said about us, we will be much better off. Think about it, everyone that is here is here, regardless of the negativity. Springfield isnt for everyone, and those that it is for, generally speaking, love it here. Lets enjoy what we have, work to make it better, and give a great big old bird to the rest of the city. Let them worry about their own low self-esteem.

[BridgeTroll]

Within this forum, the back and forth seems to stem from different ideologies of what the neighborhood should be.  Considering most of the posters involved live or operate businesses in Springfield, the discussion is most likely an outgrowth of a gentrification battle going on.

Succinct...

[fsu813]

"Within this forum, the back and forth seems to stem from different ideologies of what the neighborhood should be."

- most of the time, yes. this is the ideal, as vigerous and honest debate is necessary and appropriate.

But then you have one poster, who happens to be an MJ boardmember for goodness sakes, who spews all kinds of venomous, personal, and ridiculous propaganda that's based on imagination, creative wordsmithing, and vendetta just as much as fact. And his groupies who lick it up off the ground and regurgitate it back up. This one single person is responsible for at least half of the negative, teenage, bathroom gossip written in the last year having to do with Springfield.

*cue his usual threats to sue & ban me, along with calling me a bigot, racist, stupid, dumb, idiotic, slanderous, elitist, and exclusionary. oh yea, i forgot my 2 favorites: "not well bred" & "terribly middle-class"

[samiam]

and in this corner

[cindi]

oh come on - my fave so far, of course after the vapid male part, or motherless son of a cow, is "fsu813. Id argue with you, but I think you are just dumb. I used to think it was because your age meant that you didnt have enough experience to know what you are talking about, but now I know that it wouldnt really matter how old you were. When you make it to 30, I think you will still be dumb. At 40. Still dumb. by 50, provided you havent walked in front of an omnibus, I predict: No Change."

[thelakelander]

FSU, so I guess you two guys never got to meet for lunch, dinner or have drinks after a heavy day of debating?

[Dan B]

oh come on - my fave so far, of course after the vapid male part, or motherless son of a cow, is "fsu813. Id argue with you, but I think you are just dumb. I used to think it was because your age meant that you didnt have enough experience to know what you are talking about, but now I know that it wouldnt really matter how old you were. When you make it to 30, I think you will still be dumb. At 40. Still dumb. by 50, provided you havent walked in front of an omnibus, I predict: No Change."

Im still a big fan of lower-middle class assknob.

[samiam]

Boy I'm sorry for fueling this debate can we stop the negativity

[samiam]

I'm sure you guys know that personnel attacks are not doing any good to inform and enlighten your fellow readers