re: #42 LudwigVanQuixote

You know as well as I do how evil memes can be legitimized through repetition and desire to be included in a group. That vast majority who you claim are not racist might not have really started that way, but they are being conditioned to be so with devastating effect.

I am surprised this is not obvious to you. A simple proof of that is things which would have gotten one shunned for even hinting at some mere ten years ago are now popular and career advancing things to say.

I saw Russell Simmons on TV just the other day talking about this, almost in tears over how quickly this sort of repetitious rhetoric leads to things like Rwanda or Bosnia, and he fears the same thing is gearing up to happen here.

He’s an emotional guy at the best of times, and I wanted to tell myself he was being overly dramatic, but… I couldn’t entirely dismiss it.