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In reply to the discussion: If you don't think these people represent all Christians.... [View all]Trillo
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We are "grouped" by various societal mechanisms. We are born, and put in a "nursery" with other newborns born at roughly the same time. We have a few years alone with our parents if we don't have siblings, but when we hit school, we are grouped with a bunch of kids the same age. We are not allowed to drink until we hit 18 or 21, depending on laws in your area. We hit adulthood, and may go to college or to work, once out of college, we all grouped as laborers, except for a lucky few, born into great wealth. We are all grouped as taxpayers. Etcetera.
My only point is that "grouping" is something that we are trained with from day one by folks who have power and authority over us. Thus the idea of holding a group responsible is familiar to average folks.
The views most folks get from the media are highly skewed, the view promulgated are always going to reflect the views of the owners, mostly Disney, CBS, NBC, and NewsCorp.