A fork of Rural Dictionary
To take the "moral" side of a discussion or argument.
Beth:Why did you not warn our 18 year old son not to go to those night clubs?I had to drive all the way to a strip club to pick him up because he was wasted and had od'd on meth!
Rick:Don't highroad me Beth,no parent is perfect.
Playing the victim or otherwise ‘doing the right thing’ in a confrontation, but you damn well know you’re stirring the pot, and egging on the other person to get them irate. Typically a high road troll busts out the camera mid argument and records the other person screaming and yelling, but not what lead up to it. They respond calm and collective with zingers to get the other person more fired up. They’ll say after the fact they felt threatened and hurt, but didn’t walked away from the situation.
Karen was totally out of line, but the man recording was being a highroad troll to get her fired up for the content. He kept calm, but he new what he was doing.