The footnote is holy water is a lucky rabbit's foot. They assure you they are not prejudiced, implying a prejudice against prejudice itself. From academics to snake handlers to twentysomethings with loud hair, the gesture or fashions that declares membership in an elite minority.
"But we don't have an elite minority. We're beyond such games." Yes, except that you are in the elite minority of folks who do not need to feel themselves as members of an elite minority.
Onanismo is or at least hopes to be in an elite minority of one.
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