the house style of the journal

… that could eradicate the alleged evils of modernity: corruption, materialism, promiscuity, and racial mixing. Many individuals and groups in the United States subscribed to such ethnoracialist notions, the Ku Klux Klan being the best known.

Don't get me wrong, it wasn't bad, so it was a combo of my being over-excited and the rumor that this was some kind of shoot fight spotfest that left me with a case of the mehs.

(belittlement) A: We should go to an amusement park, it would be fun. B: Huh.