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6. It is unfair, but yes.
Sat Jan 28, 2017, 11:30 AM
Jan 2017

Just like during the Second World War, Germans were all Nazis, the French were all in the Resistance, and Japanese were nationalistic militarists. None of that was true, but at the time, you would have been hard put to find someone in the USA willing to say they thought so.

In times of antagonistic rhetoric and provocation on a governmental level, the government of a country seen to be antagonistic or a downright threat is taken to represent its people as a whole. It is up to that people, though marches, interviews, demonstrations and a barrage of writing, to convince the world otherwise. Passivity is acquiescence.

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