It is sometimes the case, in this age of the extensive flooding of information on subjects of the day, that a particular item can be of such long standing and of frequent and vigorous treatment, that we lose sight of the original propulsion in the matter. The matter took place so long ago, and is generally known to us in almost 
overwhelming detail, but we have long since moved past a deeply embedded aspect of the event, even though that historical aspect was truly the principal engine at the time.
A classic case in point is the current controversy raging in the USA, one among many in the Donald Trump saga, but this one, as they say these days, having gone viral in this week following their President’s remarks about opposing factions in the rabid encounters in Charlottesville, Virginia. The uproar has been volcanic, and had been raging for about three days unstemmed before Howard Dyson, a University Professor and columnist there, turned the discussion on its head in a striking statement.