For an American from California, you must have lead a very sheltered life!
What you see here is simply a display of individuality. If you want out and out hatred in a travel related bulletin board, try anything related to Cuba.
Here's just a couple of examples and I'm picking them at random from my collection of URLs:
CubaMania Cuba Forums - We Have Cuba Covered!
and
The Green Screen
Spend only a few minutes on either one of those and you'l cime back finding us a quiet, gentle bunch!
Testy?
Hardly!