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TreasonousBastard

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6. I don't doubt that a lot of it is...

Reply to Scuba (Reply #5)

Tue Apr 1, 2014, 12:39 PM

Apr 2014

maybe most, but we do have an innate suspicion of strangers, which is at the root of it. Why else would it be so easy to teach?

I get the point of the picture of the kids, but they are part of a group that doesn't identify itself by color.

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