(July 31, 2016 at 11:58 am)abaris Wrote:(July 31, 2016 at 11:50 am)vorlon13 Wrote: So, are we talking about the government fomenting racism to further (undefined) governmental goals, or are talking about a groundswell of racism in the populace ??The government, as long as it's not the Polish or Hungarian model, doesn't encourage it. But there are interested parties changing a political dime by appealing to the more primitive feelings of certain people.
It's kind of like when a teacher tells the class, that they're all going to get detention, because of this one kid. The teacher may not directly encourage violence, he/she may not even mean to, but that kid sure is going to get the sh*t kicked out of him afterwards.
"The fact that a believer is happier than a skeptic is no more to the point than the fact that a drunken man is happier than a sober one." - George Bernard Shaw
