re: #507 Dark_Falcon

Though it must also be noted that Bacon and his followers favored the ethnic cleansing of Native Americans from Virginia. Both sides of that affair acted in large part out of bigotry.

Of course. The point the professor was trying to make though was about scapegoating. Scapegoating is how and why we had lynchings well into last century. It’s why we incarcerated thousands of loyal and proud Japanese-Americans during WWII. It’s why Muslim-Americans get attacked following 9/11 and the Boston Marathon bombings. We’re always looking for a scapegoat and by we I mean society as a whole since we’ve invented stupid diversionary crap like religion and race to give us the excuse to say we’re better than others because we’re this and they’re that.