i think i hear inflections of what my parents generation, and old people said when i was a little kid - when i hear the racist and the homophobic sruff.

i know when i heard it the people who said it weren't evil. they just had an outdated understanding.

similarly , when i was teaching the Asian kids often wrote anti choice and anti gay stuff in their essays.

they weren't all bad people.

i dunno how Ake has arrived at the things he says, but he hasn't lived the life i've lived, and if he had - he wouldn't say them.

people don't say these things through choice and willfulness.. they say them...God knows why. let that judgemental bastard sort it out. don't sully yourself with it.