I appreciate your willingness to explain, but I am still confused.

… I am the person who described Seattle as introverted and anti social.

You are ascribing motive, intention, to my original description, that motive being ‘to talk down about something’, ie, to insult or degrade.

I am not doing that. I am describing my lived experience in Seattle as objectively as I can.

Yes, it is my personal, anecdotal experiencd, so it may or may not be truly representative…

But I am not exagerating in my assesment.

You have assumed I am doing that, and just said something with a contrarian intention than the intention you incorrectly assumed I had.

That still isn’t a joke.

It is just being contrarian.