Thanks for chiming in! I love the detailed research you've been doing on this stuff and I've read both of your recent posts. When we bring in Nazi's and what parents have done, it does start to get a little into some grey area, unless people are already convinced with the blood-lines narrative that these families operate generationally and have no problem with long, drawn out agendas that take centuries.

As for me, it's less about "being the nice guy who doesn't want to offend anyone" as it is about not alienating two completely opposed groups of people who have strongly different opinions and are both made up of rational, educated individuals. If I truly believed "Gates is obviously EVIL itself!" then I would have to believe things about my educated friends (either they are ignorant or evil). I write things the way I do in order to bring both sides of an opposing discussion to the table for respectful dialogue. If that can't happen, no progress can be made. If, for example, Bill is evil itself, those who think otherwise have to be convinced so they have to come to the conversation, right? At the same time, if, but chance, he's not the boogie man he's made out to be and he has actually creating good in the world, that would also have to be addresses for those who feel that's impossible. That's why I take the tone I do. I haven't made up my mind and people I respect on both sides of issues like this one have important perspectives to share.