The rhetoric of depersonalization creates a frightening moral fragmentation… (Not acknowledging) the danger of this rhetoric, and the moral fragmentation it inspires, lends itself to the pleasant fiction that these radicals are fundamentally decent, that they do not mean what they say… Extremists never begin as extremists. They become extremists gradually. They move gingerly forward in an open society.
Chris Hedges
Under the Radar
March 12, 2007 by Lynn
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