Reply #6: Dislike vs. Hate

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This is one place where their slippery-slope arguments are valid. There was plenty of hate before the Nazis started rounding up Jews to send them off to the death camps, but it all started when they identified the Jews as a separate (and lesser) "race". All the racist needs is a little bit of success demonizing a race of people and he's off to the races (to use an appropriate turn of phrase). He doesn't want to stop, and vows that no one's going to keep him from his goal of purifying his surroundings of those polluting races.

Racism is a boiling pot. It can simmer quietly, it can be a slow boil, it can be bubbling over; but it is still boiling and can burn anything that comes in contact with it. The lid needs to be put on it, and the heat taken away, so that any expression of race-based likes and dislikes is socially unacceptable. They need to be conditioned to keep their preferences to themselves and realize that people from other cultures, skin tones, national origins, and sexual orientations have the same human rights as they do. If there is something that they dislike, they can keep quiet about it and exercise their right not to associate with those they don't want to.