Carol, it didn't sound like that was your only complaint. I will concede -- in fact, I already have -- that "practically every page" was a pretty sweeping phrase. I don't know, and neither do you, exactly how many pages we're really talking about; to some extent I suppose that would hinge on which passages one interprets as "hateful," and which passages one considers to be something else. But it really doesn't matter in any case.

Still, if that truly was your only complaint with what I wrote, perhaps we agree on more than I thought. If not, then when you said that was your "only complaint," perhaps you were choosing your own words carelessly, just as you are suggesting I have done?

I'll make one last suggestion before trying to leave this unfortunate exchange behind: let's both try to respond to the substance of what is being said, rather than quibbling over a single instance of careless wording as if that were the crux of the issue being discussed. Can we agree on that, at least?