Reply #8: This whole thing makes me nervous.

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Having lived through segregation, and experienced the Civil Rights movement first hand I was basically silent yesterday as I carefully watched this hate filled outburst unfold. After the blatant racism and hate ginned up by Palin et al it's painfully clear that "anti-other" hatred still festers just below the surface in some people. The whole fuzzy focused nature of these demonstrations left plenty of room for that ugliness to bubble up.

I'm not laughing at these delusional idiots. There are some genuinely dangerous people in the group. One's personal memories don't have to go back to the days of Billie's "Strange Fruit", three men buried in a dam, Medgar Evers, or Martin Luther King to be aware of the danger. One has only to remember Timothy McVeigh, and abortion clinic bombings to realize how quickly this sort of hate can turn violent.