Originally Posted by abaya

You know, I'd love to apply this in several areas of my life, and probably even in the case of this Halloween decoration thing, if I knew more about it.

But not when it comes to the use of language to classify an entire group of people as being "this way." I'd answer to anyone else going apeshit on me, too, if I was writing like that... in fact, I'd hope they would. As an educated person/academic especially (I'm glad to see Watson has retired for the same reason, as roachboy pointed out in another thread), but also as an educator, hell, a human being... no, it's unacceptable to me. And I don't need to be "serene" about that one.