People have different buttons, Sawz, which trigger on different stimuli, based on different histories. While intellectually any effigy hanging of a human being is hateful and despicable as a gesture, there is no history in this country of stringing up white folks because of their race. And no-one gets overwrought about the cattle rustlers, hoss thieves, and captured spies that have been strung up, who happened to be white.

It's not that the writers here are proposing or holding different standards -- it's about the different push button reactions. Surely you should understand that, given your familiarity with the subject of pushbutton thinking.


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