I'll take your word for it that he is a great guy. Everybody should be reading my denigration of Wil for what it is - the pointing out of a common human flaw, not an attack on a person I do not know.
If I feel like denigrating someone, I'm gonna. Based on that blog post, he deserved it. I don't know him from Adam except from Star Trek so that why I made the reference. The fact is that anybody who cannot accept that the world has all kinds of people in it, and wants to magically disappear all the people they hate, hasn't grown up. It's a widespread problem.