@BenRossTransit @ikentcpel @Alon @djc absent the epithets, they should be welcome to. and the controversy surrounding this particular thread is over the prevalence of the epithets. do they exist? yes. with any meaningful frequency? maybe not, unless simple expression of the view that Robert E Lee was a great and noble man and the South’s cause was largely virtuous counts as epithet. to me, it would count only as error.