Name:   MAJ USA RET - Subject:   Hate Date:   4/22/2023 7:37:22 PM

HOUND!

“You say you hate people that are overweight.” (your words to me)

I just re-read my post. I don’t see anywhere in that post where I said I hate overweight people. I did see where I learned my lesson about that prejudice.

I do not discriminate based on skin color, gender, or gender identification. I am an observer of culture (mine included). My EXPERIENCES tell me that there are certain character traits which warrant consideration. You can read those traits in the (former) Boy Scouts of America “Scout Law.” Not one of them mentions skin color, gender, or gender identification.

Those “Scout Laws” have guided me in my professional and social affairs.

The fat guy from Giles County is still my friend. And, I hold him in the highest regard. His obesity condition has caught up with him in retirement and his health is failing. I do wish I was still working his ass off in the field. When he is gone… I will go onto my back deck and slam down a whole shot of our favorite Bourbon.

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Yes! I have (as have you) worked with good folks of all races, heritage, and sexual orientation. But… you and I have the wisdom to temper our prejudices and brush them aside. Yet, in our time, we endure political parties, social activists, and wealthy intellectual elites who would… for the purpose of self-aggrandizement… exploit the apprehensions of diverse cultures to divide and enslave us.

We are sages on a mountain-top… waiting for our scion… who lack both the fortitude to seek us - and the awareness to do so.