I think I'm crippled in appreciating Lackey's emphatic-if-in-many-ways-tone-deaf liberalism because I was raised in a very progressive household, a UU congregation and a generally socially and politically liberal neighborhood that had been fully racially integrated for decades. When a much more thoughtful and nuanced version of a certain social worldview is your default surrounding from early childhood, you tend to be underwhelmed by a clumsier presentation of same. I just never had that lightning bolt of emotional validation from Lackey that other people describe having had--more like a sense of "duh," coupled with, "yes, but you're oversimplifying, and god, you're corny."