DO YOU (this is not a rhetorical question, I really would appreciate an answer)?~~~
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And quite justly, Jim. For a start, I most certainly do not believe there are any genetic 'inferiorities' in any demographic, which sort of belief is the basis of racism. But this does not, to my mind, obviate the possibility of certain ingrained traditional or cultural factors, as distinct from any genetic factors, playing a baleful part in the attitudes of some members of certain communities. After all, since you and not Godwin this time have raised the topic ~~ the Nazis contrived for a period to brainwash an entire nation into beliefs which produced consequences which we all now rightly deplore. Do you, then, deny the very possibility that certain imams, Southern Christian fundamentalist preachers, militant political demagogues, etc, could have had a comparable effect on some parts, lesser or greater, of some particular demographies ~~ as it might be small groups of adolescent or post adolescent males of a certain minority demograph conditioned by certain teachings of some of their elders to despise the conduct of some young females of the 'host community' as being contrary to the moralities of their own tradition, thus self-justifying them to exploit them in certain ways?

I honestly believe that entirely dismissing even the possibility of such phenomena as self-evidently 'racist' is a mistaken sort of knee-jerk response, Jim ~~ whence ref to a certain comic song whose underlying meaning, relating to the unfortunate effects of an all-consuming obsession, seems to me to be relevant.

Hope this helps

~M~