[xxXXxx-]

You have a very, very misguided view of the past, we have always tied up our identities into our arguments. In fact, I would say less so now than in the past not moreso.

[mLuby]

it's perhaps misguided, but not very, very misguided. hyperbole fuels the mob.

[xxXXxx-]

Hyperbole?

The definition of hyperbole is "exaggerated statements or claims not meant to be taken literally."

My statement is not hyperbole, it was not at all exaggerated is meant to be taken literally. People have gone to war over this shit.