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Consider this photograph: Little Rock, Arkansas, on the morning of September 4, 1957. My own parents, in other states, were high school students that day. Living memory.

Note the primatology. A screech like a chimpanzee might make, pure aggression, part of our nature.

This emotion, hate. It is a potent mix of terror, rage, righteous indignation, and incendiary mob approval.

Our enlightened rhetorical questions about medium and long term consequences are a tragic category error.

@inthehands