Discrimination

true. disliking is not the same thing as discriminating, but that's going to be a hard case to sell if you say something like "i hate that black guy" instead of "i hate that guy"

but it's not too hard to understand that blacks, jews, and gays are very sensitive. i mean they are still being subtly and not-so-subtly discriminated against on tv and in society. people always say that white people are joked on as well, but white people don't have a social history of being abused and mistreated for being white so they can shrug it off and be casual about it, but for, say, a jewish kid who grows up hearing that people think he's "penny-pinching" and a "money-lover", you can see how it's easy to overreact sometimes

high school really, and doesn't need to, spend too much time on racial education

gotcha

i get what you mean. constructive criticism should always be respected as such. it's sad because people like that always have to distance themselves from the extremists who actually use logical arguments as mixture for their looney crusade.

like the spectral eye

One would think that, but unfortunately, in this society, people, most, anyways, are too judgmental. Actually, it reminds me of the Bowling 4 Soup song "High School Never Ends". In which, to me, there is truth to it.