It seems to me that younger people just give older people (people my age) funny looks when race and gender come into the conversation. Some old white guy will make a dumb ass comment regarding skin color, ethnicity, faith, or gender preference, and the young person will look at that old white guy like he's from another planet. I've seen it at lots of family get togethers over the last few years, whether that family is mine or someone else's.

I don't mean to downplay the generational effects at all. It's very real, and there is definitely a backlash against what I'll call 1619 awareness fueled by younger, harshly racist nazi types who frequent gaming forums, 4Chan and 8Chan, and other online haunts that draw these crowds. I don't think any of us expected the Obama backlash, but it was always there. His election just brought the weasels out, and Trump fanned the flames.

And I don't know exactly what is happening in rural areas - I've always been a city boy. But the city and suburbs are getting cleansed of hatred, which is one reason you are seeing so much push back from racists.

They are making their final stand. It is up to white people to take a zero tolerance approach to medieval racists in our midst. White people who complain about "political correctness" and "cancel culture" need to ask Colin Kaepernick how he feels about the cancel culture that knocked him off the football field for taking a knee. Or the Black kid who gets cancelled out of a boutique in a tourist town because he is being monitored to the point where his best move is to just leave. The list goes on, and I don't need to preach to the choir.

I think we are actually on the cusp of defeating these mental inebriates. Often, as victory approaches, the losing side takes a slash and burn approach, and I expect more of that in the coming few years.

So although I loved the herd immunity analogy, I'm not quite sure I agree with it. "They" hope you are right because they're about to become irrelevant.