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If it weren't so sad and pathetic, someone using divisiveness to bring about peace and unity would be amusing. I don't know how it is that folks can believe stuff like "if it weren't for <insert broad generalization based on race, ethnicity, nationality, sexual orientation, etc.> we (the good people) would be free from <insert bad event>" and not see the inner perversity and ugliness of their own thinking and not relate it back to the same kind of ugly, perverse thinking that led to their own irrational biases. Prejudice is tricky and circular. That's why people so often don't realize when they are practicing it.
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Most people go through life dreading they'll have a traumatic experience. Freaks were born with their trauma. They've already passed their test in life. They're aristocrats. - Diane Arbus
PESSIMISM, n. A philosophy forced upon the convictions of the observer by the disheartening prevalence of the optimist with his scarecrow hope and his unsightly smile. - Ambrose Bierce
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