
By: Rod Swift
To: Fredric Rice

You know how I have this theory about needing a "good enemy" so that
one may raise a good army of "onward Christian soldiers", and that
the enemy changes from minority to minority while propaganda about
a minority's threat to the majority can be spread?  Well, here's an
interesting quote for you :) :)

  "For centuries, dominant groups in society have used the 'they're
  after your kids' myth to marginalize subdominant groups.  The
  stories change, but the pattern is always the same.  In 19th-century
  Russia, Jews were supposedly after Christian children to use their
  blood in the Passover Seder, a convenient fiction which was used to
  justify pogroms by the Christian majority; in early-20th-century
  America, the need to protect the sanctity of young white females
  was used as a pretext for the lynching of twelve hundred black men
  between 1900 and 1940; and today, the far Right ignores statistics
  that show heterosexual men (not gay men, not straight women, not
  lesbians) are the disproportionate majority of child sexual abusers..."

  -- Kevin Jennings, founder of the Gay, Lesbian and Straight Teachers
     Network (GLSTN), in the anthology "One Teacher in Ten" [Alyson
     Publications, 1994]


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