I blocked a frenetic, terrified, genuinely ugly commenter this morning for this reason. I got two sentences in., realized that his syphilitic shit was about to scorch my eyeballs, and BLOCK. Look, man, I am sorry you cannot cope. I am not the author of that. All I can do is cope with my own shit, donate to causes I care about and love those I come across (okay okay okay, maybe not the ones toting AK-47s trying to be John Wick). Thanks for getting in a few faces about this. I too fall down the occasional rabbit hole of hate speech and have to haul my aging ass out by myself. We all are susceptible, and for my part, I figure that is just further training on how NOT to do it. Nice piece and well done.