This line of rational:
It just so happens that individuals with last names beginning with "O" are overrepresented in the US executive branch. Does this mean we blame the people with last names beginning with "O"?
Reminds me off the Homer Simpson "Extended Warranty! How I can I possibly lose!" Sketch. In that I see how it might make sense...........to a donkey who was prepared to be talked out of his hind legs.
Bigotry is the result of innumeracy and logical illiteracy, not "independent thought". If it's anyone we should be pointing fingers at, it's the ones that do the oppressing and blame everything upon everyone else. Ostracizing the Nazi, the anti-Semitic, the bigot, the homophobe, etc. is not "aligning oneself with the perceived popular response". It is an individual statement that generalizations will not be tolerated. It is an action in the hopes of avoiding the errors we have made in the past. It is forcing others to take responsibility for their own actions, not blaming them on scapegoats.
I am not stating that the OP was an independent thinker, for whatever reasons he may find emotionally appealing he is aligning himself with an already badly beaten down fringe group think opinion. He already started off on the ground with blood pissing out his mouth, there was no need for anyone at all to rush in and start booting into him even more, but that is what the rodent social instinct of most of the respondents has lead them to do. Not because they are good and righteous, but because their subconcious need to be part of the perceived accepted majority compelled them to do so in order that they appear good and righteous.
You are welcome to stick to whatever backward world view you wish, but the world is always changing and just as your grandaddy's views on the world may seem grotesque and anachronistic by today's standards, your own particular brand of limited thinking will be seen by your successors in the same light. See, the inception of political correctness really came about in the 60's and 70's, in response to the frankly ugly and limiting mainstream social prejudices of the time. Back then, it would have been someone like me who would be stating that black people are no different to whites, whereas people like you would have been going on 'Keep our Schools White' marches. By the time political correctness came into the mainstream, we were into the mid 1990's. That would be when minds like yours would come to accept and espouse PC values, whereas more radical thinkers, would already be starting to reject the limitations imposed on debate and thought, by the new status quo. Whilst the mainstream is still very much entrenched in a public ideology of 'equality', at the forefront of psychological and scientific research, the evidence is piling up which suggests that actually, nature has an overwhelming effect on an individuals mind and thus, who our forebearers were and lives that they lead, influence the hard wired form that our minds are born with. Ultimately, this implies individual and racial inequality. Don't like the fact that people of African extraction dominate boxing or the 100 meter sprint? Deal with it. Don't like the fact that students of oriental ethnicity tend to score much higher in mathematical disciplines? Deal with it. Don't like the fact that people of Jewish ethnicity are overwhelmingly represented in the top 20% of affluency bracket in Western nations? Deal with it, because these are all irrefutable facts that are fundamentally determined by genetic inheritance.
This is something that hopefully in due course, will come to be widely recognised without anyone feeling the need to go and wipe out the high maths scoring Chinese students. In the meantime, people like me, have to put up with herd members like you trying to ostracise me and deny me my right to free opinion and speech.