Reply #206: wait -- based on argument from misrepresentation

[iverglas]

Argument from authority.. wait, your only 'authority' is watching tv and reading websites?

Oh dear, there's just no expecting civil discourse from you at all, is there?

Did you want me to mention my extensive travels all over the US (I'd line my state and city total up against just about anybody's here) and my contacts with various subcultures there during those times?

The grindingly racist white folk in Texas I had the misfortune of having for out-laws? (Parents, siblings and friends of the person I lived with for several years in Canada -- daddy was a reloader.) The underclass I spent time in, in the Tri-City area of Illinois/Iowa? The right-wing Republican NRA ball cap wearers my dad lived among in Florida? The neighbourhood of cops and similarly situated white people I used to visit in, just upstream from Detroit? I know exactly who is strutting around with six-guns on their hips. I have seen the the whites of their eyes.

The assumption you are probably going on here is that people outside your borders are as ignorant of the big wide world as people you know on the inside. 'Tain't so, my friend, 'tain't so. Not wise to judge foreigners' knowledge and experience by your own limited standards.