Indeed, if we don't talk about what's going on, we're at the mercy of social trends we may bitterly rue after they become more normalized.

I wrote an article about Sneako (thank you for linking to it!) not because he says outrageous things, but because random children at a professional baseball game encountered him and echoed his anti-gay hatred back at him, for his approval, on camera.

When children are echoing extremist hatred against members of minorities, then the time is long past not to confront what's happening.