[Arm-netbook] Totally derailed topic

[Hendrik Boom]

On Thu, May 11, 2017 at 09:51:41AM +0200, Elena ``of Valhalla'' wrote:
> 
> well, not really. power and lust for it is the cause of most *phobia in
> the world; homosexual and trans people are among the minorities that are
> currently used as an easy target to turn people's insatisfaction with
> the current situation on, like in the past it was the jews (and
> homosexuals, and jehowa's witnesses, etc) in germany, the japanese in
> the US during the war and the communists afterwards, etc. 
> 
> Some of it uses the excuse of religion, some of race, some of politics,
> but the shared factor is that they are all minorities that are big
> enough to be visible, but small enough that the people in power (or who
> want to get in power) don't feel them as a danger.

The japanese in  the US during the war were imprisoned because the 
people 
in power *did* feel them as a danger.  There might be Japan-sympathisers 
among that minority who could sabotage the war effort, especially on the 
est coast.

There was at least some plausibility in that fear.  But the measures 
taken were out of proportion to the threat.

-- hendrik