Me too, and that is my point: there is enough to go around for everyone, no one group gets singled out. The abuse and the bullying is the same; the only differences are the "reasons" (read: excuses) for it, and the forms that it takes. And it all starts with a propaganda war to objectify, vilify, and dehumanize some group of people defined as "other."

I always hope that people will embrace humanism, but there is too much power to be gained, and money to be made, in tribalism and factionalism. Male vs. female, this ethnicity against that one, this denomination against that sect, political parties warring against each other...and on it goes. Keep stirring the pot, keep the people squabbling amongst themselves, so that they can never see their way clear to the larger picture. "A house divided against itself cannot stand."

There are lots of nasty people out there who are only interested in themselves, so enjoy knowing the decent ones who don't take advantage or bully or abuse us. Treasure them, they really are important.

Thank you, I could not have said that better. Indeed I treasure them, they are rare and precious. When people play identity politics, promoting their own group at the expense of some other (which are blamed, vilified, criminalized, dehumanized), the decent people are tarred with the same brush. Since even decent people have a breaking point, some of them, too, "rebel → become radical." If one of them happens to publish an emotion-laden essay, that may well precipitate yet another angst-ridden movement for social justice and equity, which becomes yet another group of practitioners in identity politics. Such an essay was Hate Bounces by "Zed the Zen Priest." Read it and weep. :"(