Some of us were alive during the Paris Peace Talks, when the importance of a round table, at which people who are proponents of various views, ideologies, policies, could sit and explain to each other and argue back and forth, was central. One of my chief complaints, perhaps THE chief one, is the lack of people willing to sit around the "round table," well equipped to be there, and explain their positions. I find that that "progressives," "Democrats," "leftists," "feminazis," etc. seem more prepared to do this and present themselves in the open. I get the impression that "Republicans," "conservatives," right-wing "Christians," (and I can't parse through the intersection between the Republican Party and these people who call themselves "Christian" and whether or not they want to set up a theocracy in the U.S.A.), are unable to do this.
With issues of race and relationships between people of different skin colors, ethnicities, relationships between heterosexual men and women, relationships between people who follow different religions, relationships between people with varying sexual orientations, why not come to the round table and talk? I don't approve of this running away and heading for the back door.
Whether the issue be sex, sexual orientation, race, religion, ethnicity, or anything else, the time for cowardice is over.
