Re: Muddy waters
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I aslo fear what I see as 'mob mentality' surrounding this specific issue, and ask all posters, as you do, to be very sensitive to where that type of mentality leads.
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An example of what that kind of mentality can lead to is the Holocaust.
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Comparing a squabble on the politics forum of a poker website to the holocaust = Brilliant!
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Ok, I will say it more clearly: take the posts of some of the posters here and exchange Arab with Jew and it sounds like early nazi propaganda. Mix that with mob mentality and you have the basis for another Holocaust. Of course it is far far away and I don't accuse anyone of being near that extreme, just pointing out what it may lead to. The kind of thinking that some other race is inferior and less worth has led to loss of plenty of innocent lives throughout history (Holocaust etc.). And we are not past that part in history, so we can't just shuffle it away as irrelevant, racial motivated killings happen in many areas of the world frequently today. That this is a poker forum provides no excuse from contributing to the futural risk of such events even if the influence is microscopic and society as a whole has a bigger knowledge buffer. If more people had confronted it in the 1920s and 1930s when it started to brew it may not have been possible for Hitler to do what he did, maybe some could learn from that?
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