Her reputation preceded her. As Bourne approached the lectern for public comment — shouting about “healthy, whole women!” — scores of district-area teachers got up from their seats and walked out of the meeting.
Bourne went ballistic.
“Ask those teachers to stop interrupting my comment!” she shouted at the meeting chair. “I want my time back! I want my time back!”
Prejudice isn’t a “complexity”. It’s a lack of any subtlety or complexity: “X people era bad regardless of anything and that’s final”. Regardless even of being your own child.
Trust me, I understand wanting to make excuses for people and wanting to believe that there’s a little good in everyone but sometimes there just isn’t.