Hear That Sound? It's Feces Hitting the Fan.

[Doc]

Don't take this the wrong way, Doc, but your habit of bridging to one particular theme gets old, and occasionally evokes a caustic response.  One wonders if you assume that if you don't bring it up, no one is or ever has been aware of what you care about.  Race baiting gets very old after a while.

Occhi
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It's not race baiting. It's a reminder of the sorts of things that everybody wishes would just go away so they can comfortably ignore it, pretend it doesn't exist, and then not have to worry about doing anything about it or facing the issue.

And I can deal with caustic responses, really... :P I am rather used to the idea that everybody would be much happier if people like me would just go away. Everybody could go back to their ideal little fantasy worlds that they create and then work hard to shelter their views to maintain. People living in their perfect little suburban neighborhoods, like those around Columbine, they could continue to reap sympathy for their own dead and not have to worry about sharing it with anybody else. People can pretend that life is hunky dory and everything is wonderful.

People would be so much happier with out folk like me reminding them of the lessons of their past history, and that if we aint careful, we're going to be right back where we started if we don't pull our collective heads out of our collective asses. Ignoring the problem never makes it go away. But when the chickens come home to roost, wow, everybody panics.