Many Americans have no friends of another race: poll

[August]

Originally Posted by Skybird

Yes, but it has won a new quality in the public's endless debates with itself. More and more things slide so that when you call a politically incorrect opinion "insane", it is meant as that for real, the meaning of a mental disease from which society must cure the subject. That may be part of the explanation why correctness and its activists have become more and more intolerant will a surprising amount of totalitarianism and force to enforce their "therapies" and "cures" (you should listen in to some of the suggestions coming from the Green and the left in Germany).

It's no longer just rhetorically meant, but often is implied or meant as being fact. Disagreeing with the wanted opinion becomes evidence for your mental problems, your "insanity". Education camps come next. That they want a legal obligation that parents have to expose their children to Kindergardens already at the age of 1 year although medical and psychological research shows that this means so much stress and fear that it is damaging to the children's health (immune system defects) and personality development (concentration deficits, risen risks for later neurosis and personality disorders), must be seen in this context. Of course the idea is most loved by the left and Green: the individual means nothing, it's dissolving in the collective means everything.

Again it's nothing new in human or even western history. The players and the topics change but the purposes and intentions do not. Extend ones control over the population and outlaw or marginalize the opposition. Any reason will do. In an earlier time they would just have declared them heretics or counter-revolutionaries.