In numbers, there is safety. In crowds there is anonymity.
As young adults learn to navigate society and its values they
realize theirs are the values society must learn to navigate.
Values born not of experience and guidance in morality
and ethical behaviour, but those of the mob. And if, in
following the mob, a twinge of doubt arises, it can be
abruptly abandoned, for if everyone is 'doing it', it must
somehow be right and therefore carry on with the pleasant
indulgence of being a part of this great celebration where
a much, much smaller group is the target, where whispers
now and again of suspicion and contempt have fully
coalesced into a full-blown pogrom of rejection, accusation
and isolation, where implied threats seem harmless enough
but amplified and emotionalized seem adequate reason
for the physical to arise. And isn't it exciting, everyone
marching, banners aloft to save the Palestinians from the
vicious rampage of the Israelis who reason notwithstanding
threaten genocide over accusations unsubstantiated of
mass murder, rape, abduction, mutilation, all explicable
given the burden of victimized people finally fighting back.
And is this not the most exciting, head-spinning experience
marching as one for human rights, the underdog arisen!
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