Right on-- referencing what you said before, "it's part of the American culture ---it isn't all peace and love and holding hands ----and I'm not sure it should be."
"Over-sensitivity" is unhealthy-- for individuals as well as society. When one allows oneself to get to the point where one's ire is aroused at the least little breach of one's "sore" points, there is something wrong. I'm just a tad on the young-un side of 30 so some of y'all might think I'm still just a dadburned whippersnapper, but one thing I've learned in all my years (hehe) of dealing with relatively polarized segments of conservative and liberal hardliners alike-- a sense of perspective, fairness and humor goes a long way.
The truth is somewhere inbetween. I believe firmly in that. The far right may (will) condemn me to hell and the far left may (will) still think I'm a backwoods bigot, but ultimately it is I who have to answer for myself.
Retracking myself on the sensitivity issue-- man has a natural self-centered instinct, as a result of individual selfconsciousness and self-awareness. For most of us, it's just "me myself and I" rattling around in our own skulls behind our own eyes. It is a mark of higher consciousness to be able to operate on a level beyond that of our own appetites...
And that, for me, proves the dearth of multicultural ideology. Think about it-- the phrase itself is oxymoronic. The movement no more purports to strengthen multicultural (God, I am sick of that word) alliances, or whathaveyou, than to grow extra toes. It's all about advancement of a few pettyminded entitlement-driven loudmouths who derive pleasure from putting other folks down. It's all about-- I don't know what it's all about, but it sure costs alot.
It's so shallow, it disgusts me.