I agree that no one is holding a gun to anyone's head to get them to read offensive threads. But there is something more insidious about these threads--and that is the climate/attitudes from those sorts of threads that end up permeating other threads, and the forum in general.

Now, considering the proliferation of these threads over the past week or so, there are at least two possible explanations for the current backlash against them: 1) they are getting more "in our face" or, 2) everyone's tolerance level of this sort of BS is dropping. It could be a combination of the two. It could be the doldrums of summer, and the offending posts will eventually go away. Or maybe the BS/non BS split in the forum is the real underlying issue.

I don't know the answer. But more people do seem fed up with it, and are saying so.