Quote:Jorlem wrote:Oh, joy. Can you say "self-fulfilling prophecy," boys and girls? If they consistently regard the rest of the U.S. population, including the legitimate majority government, as the enemy, they're just begging to be rounded up into camps as hostile aliens, and with rather more justification than in WWII.... (How much damage could one pro-Imperial-Japan Nisei do with a gun or some IEDs? Now, how much damage could one wizard do, if his spells aren't at first even recognized as attacks? Ouch.)
So, here's an interesting thing from today's entry in the series:
Quote:Rappaport’s Law further entrenched the major cultural difference between the American wizarding community and that of Europe. In the Old World, there had always been a degree of covert cooperation and communication between No-Maj governments and their magical counterparts. In America, MACUSA acted totally independently of the No-Maj government. In Europe, witches and wizards married and were friends with No-Majs; in America, No-Majs were increasingly regarded as the enemy. In short, Rappaport’s Law drove the American wizarding community, already dealing with an unusually suspicious No-Maj population, still deeper underground.
By the way, on the subject of "no idea about history," one news article several years ago claimed that a fair number of Britishers interviewed on a city street had no idea against whom the American Revolution had been fought.... Gross historical ignorance: it's not just here in the U.S.
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Big Brother is watching you. And damn, you are so bloody BORING.