Since that can too easily happen once again (anybody ever read 'The wave'?... just found out some days ago personally that's too easy to happen
So true. Lately, I really have the same feelings... Our political scene is depressing.
Same here. Ever since I saw that footage a few days after 9/11 of some woman yelling insults at a Muslim whose only crime was proudly displaying their reiligion. I feel for all the muslims out there. Just because a small group of their peers twist their religion and make it something that encourages hatred and destruction, they're all being judged by a majority of people (from what I've seen) as potential terrorists. It's fucking bullshit. Stuff like that is what almost killed my great-grandfather (he was a fighter pilot captured by the nazis, but, luckily, they didn't notice he was a Jew) and, if the third reich's infulence had reached here in Canada, would have probably killed my entire family before I even existed.
I'm probably ranting here, but racial profiling really hits home to me, and really angers me. Both as a man with Jewish ancestory and as a man with a black brother in-law and nephews.
And my grade 10 history teacher was thinking of trying 'the wave' experiment with my class, he decided against it, but yeah, just hearing about the experiment was sort of disturbing. It seems so easy for people to be bred to hate one another.