Where would America be

[burythehatchet]

without some group of people to demonize?

From the savage Indians to the Islam-o-fascists. Where would we be?

[HysteryDiagnosis]

1. We'd be screwed. Our economy depends on the success

of the military industrial complex.... sadly so.

[burythehatchet]

3. Are we presently not screwed?

[Redstone]

2. Hey, it's the American way. Where I grew up (this was over 40years ago)

we never heard the word "nigger," because there simply weren't any black people for about 200 miles at least. And people didn't routinely travel far, there and then.

But do you know what we did hear? "Goddamn Frogs this, Goddamn frogs that."

"Frogs" being French Canadians. (We were only about 30 miles from the border of Quebec.) No, why on earth those our parents had a problem with the French Canadians, I have NO clue. It's not like anyone around there had a pot to piss in, anyway.

So go figure. It's just the American way, as I said.

Redstone

[CatWoman]

4. an old history professor told me that

in order to hate; one must first demonize.

[burythehatchet]

5. and generalized hate springs from self-loathing