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We have to be careful when a powerful majority group member comes along to demonize a minority. Saying “they are evil, they hate us, and they want to destroy us” is the playbook of every polemic who wants to use minorities as easy excuses for the ills of the world.

When powerless minority’s to this to the majority, it’s also objectionable but it’s less immediately dangerous.



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