That suggests, Elmore, that the person to whom you are alluding would be much better off just posting here as an anonymous Guest, since that would allow him or her to bypass the usual knee-jerk reactions, personal feuds, and bitter prejudices between various individuals that have built up here over a period of years...personal reactions which cause people to judge a statement simply on the basis of WHO is making it, rather than on the actual content of the statement itself.

That's a real problem on this forum, and it does not contribute usefully to having conversations.

It's a problem often in politics too....as people will immediately discount any statement from the party they don't like, the news outlet they don't like, the nation they don't like or the politician they don't like regardless of the content of the statement and regardless of the worth of the statement.

In short, it's prejudice. Unthinking prejudice. Or...as some might call it: bigotry.

Note: I am not Songwronger. I am somebody else. But since you don't necessarily know who I am...you can't necessarily leap to any pre-established position of prejudice you're carrying, and you have probably bothered to read this far already...which makes posting as an anoymous Guest here more agreeable than posting as a member.