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Message: <blockquote data-quote="billd91" data-source="post: 8479138" data-attributes="member: 3400">It's not just if you hold those beliefs. For a lot of people, any bad light shining on the things you embraced when you were younger or maybe even got you through some tough times in adolescence is like a bad light shining on you. You should see how people freaked out about the disclaimers on old episodes of Sesame Street when they were run on streaming media. And those weren't even about old attitudes as much as they were about old teaching methodologies. (A lot of people don't know that Sesame Street, from the beginning, involved a lot of planning and use of researched teaching methods - still does.)People often look back on these things with nostalgia and fondness - and now these upstart new generations are saying there's something wrong with them?!? So yeah, a lot of people get defensive about that even if they're not personally particularly racist, sexist, homophobic, etc. It can be a bit like someone criticizing your mother. I may know she's cantankerous and grouchy, but complain to me that she is and my gut reaction is to be kind of pissed off. It may not be rational, but that rational part has to keep that gut reaction under control in order for me to be more constructive about someone taking a pot shot at my mother... or sticking a content disclaimer on the things I loved as a kid.</blockquote>