...explain to me how the comment I was referring to was normal in any way...
In fairness, TOP, explanations are
futile
among people who are unequipped to understand one another.
Neither one of us has any realistic reason to expect to understand how the other side thinks.
In my most vivid imagination, for just one example,
I cannot begin to understand how anybody of my own species
can look upon Donald Trump
and see anything other than
as repugnant a creature
as is possible to be manifested
from the physical elements available on our planet.
Please do not dismiss this as hyperbole.
I could not ever be more serious.
I accept the sincerity of your views as well.
I don't need to understand them.
By the same token, myself, my wife, my children, my parents before me--
none of us viewed ourselves as "baby killers"--
-
but all of us had to accept
that certain different strains of humanity
seriously and sincerely viewed us as such.
We simply accepted it as the reality
in a universe of ideologically incompatible people.
Explanations are probably asking too much.
Just my view, of course.