Pandagon on Race & Immigration

..."But not really. I think that hatred, once unleashed, gets a life of its own. An underclass of people becomes hated, then feared, and then loathed and it becomes this visceral hate that becomes impervious to reason. By the time somebody internalizes the cultural lies that justify oppression, the hate rules her to the degree that she reacts mostly to her disgust and hatred reactions, and not to facts or anything like that. Witness Lou Dobbs pushing a faith-based notion that Mexican immigrants are leperous."

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reminds me of the exchange I had on the EP Times forum this weekend where I goaded a poster to out himself as a racist... here