What I don't see is a clear list of a few "this is something I didn't write" items.

If it's that hard to pick out, then it doesn't matter anyway.

And yeah, not only are we "evolving" on issues, I also take questionable points of view to delve into matters and elucidate uncomfortable contradictions or unobvious ways of looking at things.

There are good reasons why I use a pseudonym to write. Just yesterday on Twitter some guy (gal?) with 1500 followers just completely reversed a couple of innocuous tweets I made and for the life of him couldn't go back and re-read to figure out where he went off the rails. (sometimes I'm subtle and cryptic, but this time not so much). Multiply this by a million people who can find some particular statement offensive, and then launch a campaign to get you banned or shut down or fired....

Yeah, there was another tweet about a week ago where I made a joke (on myself - taking what he said he hated, and ironically folding it back) that the recipient took at face value, with an "I don't do that" response - and suddenly I had a handful of people liking his response to me. This was a trivial incident, but I can just imagine someone with more followers would suddenly get a storm of angry dissenters, people who didn't even bother to read and understand what they wrote (or did, but say like with some of the gay comments, there are 20 or 100 shades of whether people find stuff offensive or not).

I remember when "that's so gay" was just a common, not angry expression-du-jour used by lots of people just as "sike" or "rad" or "homey" or what-not gained prominence - used by gays as well, if I recall correck (Flav reference), just like "gaydar" et al. Sure, people unused to gay relationships might go or have gone "ewww" at the thought, just like my thoughts 12 years ago to a gay friend describing douching was "TMI", but it's not that different from reading Diary of a Hitman or whatever as a kid with this guy & some nympho who'd screw & douche & screw & douche... a bit of different context and it's "intriguing" or "exciting", elsewise "disgusting" - we're all Jr High kids still to some extent, which is fine - or should be.

Anyway, like with this professor couple that got fired for another campus, our society provides some tools for mob flashes that aren't very pretty. The idea that a politician would willingly go out and deliver the thoughtful pieces that an RFK or MLK did 50 years ago, expecting people to think about it, to internalize it? Not really going to happen - torches, virtual or real, are way too plentiful these days. 140/280 chars is relatively safe to then deny and disavow - anything longer and you're creating a permanent record for denouncing and sending to the re-education camps. I was uncomfortable with the digging into things Bernie wrote about rape or child sex back in the 70's, even when it was "concern trolling" - he was obviously just playing with ideas, not trying to start a commune based on child abuse and sex slaves, and somewhere we used to believe that thinking out of the box brought good rewards - just now, we have a box around that box just to be sure we don't go *too* far.

That's why I post anon - to keep my Senate race & Wall Street trading career intact. Shit/piss/fuck/cunt/motherfucker/blowjob/h.e. double toothpicks... like that old song, "sending all my Tourette's 2 you...."