Since I am the guy that opened my big mouth and started all this, I have been most tempted to just keep my keyboard quite with regards to this continuing conversation. But it appears at least some of you share my thoughts;
Mark pretty well said what I had on my mind.
Since a good many of you were born long after the end of the Second Great Hate, I suspect your all -to- apparent prejudices are learned rather than earned. Most of us old farts learned a long time ago that that type of assumed hatred is not particularly useful or healthy.
I am sure that it is convenient to be able to hide behind a cute handle and make all kinds of radical statements, as there usually are no consequences involved. But along with the no consequences, there usually is a big dose of "no attention" and "no credibility".
If you were meeting a mixed group of strangers in a public place, I really doubt if many of you would refer to members of the group with most of the terms you seem to want me to accept as socially acceptable.
Good manners have NOT gone out of style. But they sure have become a good deal more difficult to find.
Norm