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Fear! (Part II)

The seeds of social rejection are sown and nurtured through stigmatization, labeling, and myriad forms of discrimination.  Every act of group stigmatization arises out of the desire of a dominant group to establish, exercise and maintain its dominance over less powerful or marginalized groups.  The elements of stigmatization include negative labeling, social separation of groups, […]

Fear! (Part I)

For a very long time, we have known from studies that human nature would almost require us to do anything that we think might protect us from real, imagined or clearly perceived dangers. The other side of that is that, out of a desire for the preservation of organized society, we are under the requirement […]