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		nitrogen on June 3, 2015 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: FBI operating fleet of surveillance aircraft flyin... You'd also be harassed if you deviated from any social norms, had the wrong religion/skin/... We should not want to return to such times.

JoeAltmaier on June 3, 2015 [–]

That's very much a modern view. And not shared around the world at all. Racism is of course wrong. But social norms are the glue that holds us all together, to a degree. Its not black-and-white.

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