I usually have thick skin. Scar tissue I tell folks who ask. But a recent theater review by the Republic’s Randy Cordova is still bugging me. In his review of the show Blast ^[1], he referred to the “PBS crowd”. I ignored it at first, but it keeps bothering me. I have heard this before and always as code and it always rings for a long time after. I am tired of code, of discourse shifts, of hiding in language. And I am so very tired of bigotry and racism playfully hiding behind nudges and winks.

I wonder what he meant by “PBS crowd”? Do you know?