We were talking to a few people about how the media is showing the "Violent Blacks", "White Collar Fat Cats", "Blue Collar Dummies", " Good Christian Men/Woman", ETC... And I got to thinking this is very much like what we were taught in the Army about handling detainees. You first divide men from woman, then find some way to divide them out further (like height, weight, color of clothes, etc...) keep doing this till you have very manageable groups. now poke your groups to get them to 'rat out' the people in the other groups.
Now lets apply this to labels that groups of people may give themselves or group give to other groups. Then lets say you have the metaphorical sheep dogs (preachers, politicians, or other group leaders) keep their little herd nice and tight and telling them the other herds are wolfs that will eat them. After awhile the sheep don't know who are wolfs and who are the sheep, so they get scared of each other and only listen the the sheep dogs. As new sheep dogs come and go and not knowing what a wolf looks or smells like a wolf may get on as a sheep dog. The wolf can now march the small or even tiny group off and no one cares or even notices.
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