Reply #18: Bush's Culture of HATE is becoming more mainstream

[ultraist]

This is just the type of thing that is becoming more acceptable. I read an article about an Ok KKK group that was publicly recruiting and working on gaining political clout. A big segregationist move is happening.

I've also noticed people are becoming more comfortable with HATE speech. ANTI-Muslims, ANTI-Blacks, ANTI-gays, ANTI-foreigners, ANTI-non *Christians*, etc.

It's not a coincidence that HATE GROUPS are on the rise. Bad things are happening here and we should be on alert.

My guess is, that non-whites in general, but Blacks specifically, will be the main target since they are the largest minority group, thus pose the most threat to power. People are feeling desperate to hold onto their power during these stressful times.

Forms of segregation can be insideous or overt. The hate crime groups are overt about claiming their superiority (segregationist attitudes) but this attitude is also seen in more subtle forms such as when people deny a power differential exists to maintain their "superiority."

http://www.almaz.com/nobel/peace/MLK-jail.html

Excerpt from Martin Luther King's Letter from Birmingham, Alabama

"...segregation distort the soul and damages the personality. It gives the segregator a false sense of superiority and the segregated a false sense of inferiority. Segregation, to use the terminology of the Jewish philosopher Martin Buber, substitutes an "I-it" relationship for an "I-thou" relationship and ends up relegating persons to the status of things. Hence segregation is not only politically, economically and sociologically unsound, it is morally wrong and awful. Paul Tillich said that sin is separation. Is not segregation an existential expression 'of man's tragic separation, his awful estrangement, his terrible sinfulness?"