POCKET PARADIGMS

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For many years now, the Republican right has engaged in a politics of
cultural bullying that is the direct descendent of the southern
segregationists. It is based on anathematizing a minority in order to
solidify its own political base around false assumptions of purity and
superiority. It is an illusion that deceives much of its own
constituency into thinking that ultimately minor cultural differences
are more important than such issues as economics, healthcare or public
education. Thus it is not only mean, it is masochistic. One minority
ends up being hurt by another that is being conned and hurt in other
ways.- Sam Smith

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