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6. Exactly the sort of savagery I ran away to escape from the midwest at 16 years old

Much as I cannot know whether the numerous death threats amongst injurious violence I was subject to in high school would have become reality, I didn't hang around to find out. Idiots in such areas haven't progressed one whit in attitudes for a century.
It was only via progressive articles in a friend's Rolling Stone magazine that I discovered there was likely relatively safe shelter from extremist bullying (religiously backed, btw) in San Francisco. I did not return to the state until recently to help care for my aging parents.
This sort of thing sickens me. These are devout "religious" bastards that are pushing for violence against anyone different. They are no better, to me than the middle eastern terrorists when I read crap like this.