Baron Bodissey puts out a warning at Gates of Vienna: Changing the Subject.

To our regular commenters: I have a request.

In many of our recent posts — for reasons that aren’t clear to me — no matter what topic is covered by the original posts, the comment threads are showing a disturbing tendency to divert to the topic of race.

I’m not arguing against any particular point of view, nor questioning the right of anyone to hold that point of view.

I’m simply concerned about the fact that posts having nothing to do with race are turned into heated arguments about race.

This is doing damage to our blog.

Hello? Is Baron Bodissey there? I have a call on the clue phone for a “Baron Bodissey”….