I'm the one who said Akenaton is fucking evil, for what it is worth.

Unlike him, I stick to the views he types under that name whilst he takes every opportunity to remind everybody of the name of the person behind the Musket monicker. One clever thing about people who spout evil views is that generally they don't have courage of their own conviction whilst trying to spread their shit as liberally as they can.

Which of course brings us to the word "liberal." As we have people both sides of the pond, it may be interesting to notice the different interpretations of the word.

To Goofus. I am a liberal.
To Akenaton. I am not a liberal.

To everybody else.   The two statements above are not contradictory.

My main point regarding respectable boundaries in reply to the op on this thread is that respectability goes further than strong reaction, it starts with boundaries of obscene views, however wrapped up in polite terms and requests for reasonable reaction to unreasonable stance.

I have no idea about The USA in general and presumably state law differs, but Akenaton and I are bound by hate laws and whilst I see the criminal laws as overkill, his propagation of hate, suggestions of registering gay people, forcing testing and contact tracing, all for no reason at all, contravene the law. If I am such a liberal as he says, I would despise such laws but they do have the advantage of allowing people to go about their business without being stigmatised, without people being urged to see them as different.

Sadly, those of us working in one way or another in health care see such odious views being spilled into our world to try unsuccessfully to justify hate.   It doesn't wash.

Although I am about to.   I feel better washing after explaining my utter contempt for bigotry.

Morning all.