• LWD@lemm.ee
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    1 year ago

    It’s important for people to form their beliefs in more than just opposition to a thing. It’s totally reasonable that living through an abusive, repressive society (of any stripe) will create incredibly negative opinions towards it, but the wrong groups can abuse that opposition to inject some harmful beliefs in addition.

    And it cuts both ways. Fear of Communism in the '50s and '60s was used to condemn racial integration, for example.