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Originally posted by AGDee
I think that the behavior is so appalling that we find it hard to believe that people can act in such a way.
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But why? How? I guess that's what I'm trying to get to. There is ample historical record that shows that people have acted like this in the past. Regardless of the progress that has been made -- progress that I'm not trying to downplay, by the way -- it's relatively easy to make the historical case that there have been, are, and probably always will be people who decide to express their racism in a more explicit and perhaps violent way. It's not as if it's happening in a vacuum, or that it's an isolated incident. Do people just not see it? Do they choose not to see it? Or do they see it, and because it's not happening to them, they don't remember it?
(I'm not throwing idle accusations at you or anyone else, AGDee - I'd really like to know the answers).
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