1) Good for Ms. Walton for saying what needed to be said.
2) It must be hideously embarrassing to discover - and when you're speaking on a panel! - that you're on the higher end of humanity's ever-present desire to do evil.
3) The best thing to do in such a situation is to keep quiet till you have an opportunity to discuss this with someone you trust, possibly a professional.
4) Alternatively, you can keep arguing that this is a universal impulse, until everyone at the con has decided not to invite you and your road-rage-inducing car to any future cons.
(On a completely different topic: I lived in Greenbelt for forty years. My father taught in the English department at UMD College Park.)
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1) Good for Ms. Walton for saying what needed to be said.
2) It must be hideously embarrassing to discover - and when you're speaking on a panel! - that you're on the higher end of humanity's ever-present desire to do evil.
3) The best thing to do in such a situation is to keep quiet till you have an opportunity to discuss this with someone you trust, possibly a professional.
4) Alternatively, you can keep arguing that this is a universal impulse, until everyone at the con has decided not to invite you and your road-rage-inducing car to any future cons.
(On a completely different topic: I lived in Greenbelt for forty years. My father taught in the English department at UMD College Park.)