You may have mistaken "W"'s quite natural reaction to the bigotry for "gender baiting". He pulled his punches ~ like it's been so long since we saw such raw and savage religious hatred that it could be he really didn't know how to answer.
Anyway, that's for a different time.
Regarding what you take to be "moderate to liberal" views on race, I'd suggest I have quite "rabid" views on race ~ rather along the lines of Dan Inoue's when he volunteered to take another Senator outside the Capitol Building and beat him to death with his own arm.
There's really no other way to deal with it you know (and I'm not referring to beating anybody to death, but you have to stand firm in the face of it every single time you run into it.)
pardon me but W and Gillespie (his minion) and Laura all gender baited during Harrietgate.
you and I have divergent views on all identity based cultural issues and both been here a while....you longer than me granted
that's not surprising....I have yet to meet a former member of the WLAT BRIGADE that doesn't have socially liberal views beyond Dixie bashing....
You sound eerily like Poobah sometimes....or OPH....on this stuff...do you miss them?..and Wlat?
that you survive speaks highly of you.....you post on other issues where I agree heartily and have been to commend you
we are both probably products or who, what and where we are...you're older too are you not?
night night
;>)