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Sometimes a group needs to coordinate on a single victim, and that coordination is easier if the victim is marked out as different somehow.


Of course! That technique has served the American government very well. It didn't take too much effort to make the Native Americans an enemy, because they didn't look like 'us'.

The Spanish American war, they didn't look like us.

During WWII, they put legal, non-enemy Japanese in internment camps and confiscated their property for no reason, just because they didn't look like us; but they didn't do that to people of German descent because they looked like us.

The Korean War and the Vietnam Wars, they didn't look like us.

In the Middle East, they don't look like us, dress like us, or have our religion, an easy sell.

As long as our government and the media work together, they can sell the American people practically anything. And if it works on that scale, it works just fine at a business.

Sue