Utterly Unaware

We often see examples about how the Regressives (my preferred term) are bigoted and hypocritical, while utterly unaware of their being so. I rarely encounter such in daily life, mostly because I don't usually encounter Regressives and if I do, I don't engage with them on anything of significance.

Yesterday, on the way to Mom's, I was listening to radio news about the then-unfolding shooting in Colorado Springs. At Mom's, I ask my Colorado relatives if they were aware of the news from their home state, which they weren't.

Warning of the fog of war, I said it appeared there was a shooter "at or near" a Planned Parenthood clinic.

BiL swiftly and blandly intones, "some right-to-lifer, then." I replied, well, no reports of any "allahu akbar." Which brought his swift and sharp rebuke, "Not that it matters to the ones being shot!"

It seemed to me that it was not said with the inclusiveness that it doesn't matter either way, but rather as if my reference to jihadism had stuck a thorn under thin skin.

I may have misinterpreted.

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72 hours rule (at least) sure applies. It went from "at or near a PP clinic" to "nothing to do with the PP clinic directly" when I last talked about it with them, to "seemed to be an attack on the PP clinic" after all, last I read late last night.

On the whole I wish I'd never mentioned the matter.