#and nothing gets on my nerves faster than people being flippant about the fact that they're so entrenched in their own views

[praise-the-lord-im-dead]

I have had three encounters with people today trying to point out crimes and evils committed by non-white or non-american people as some kind of gotcha and I just.

Oh my!! My whole worldview, shattered!

You mean lots of people can do evil things?? How fascinating! How new! How unheard of! That completely erases any and all need to try and understand our past, doesn't it. That makes everything that's ever happened okay and not worth examining. Evil is so pervasive that we just don't need to fight it, ever, at all, because if we can't approach a situation by separating people into good and bad categories along lines of ethnicity or nationality, then it's just too complex to think about. It's better to go on without examining our prejudices, because other people are prejudiced too, so prejudice is now a cool and good thing!