Most bigots aren't "big racists." They aren't the KKK types, the cross burners, the ones that would call you names, spit on you and beat you up as long as there were at least three of them for every one of you.
Most bigots are nice people- the church-goers, school teachers, police officers, business-people, truck drivers, mayors, and mail carriers. They make the community what it is. They make the wheels turn- the wheels of commerce, the wheels of benevolence, the wheels of oppression and injustice. They are the "little racists."
In the Holocaust, these were the normal people, those who thought of themselves as decent folk. Those who wouldn't kick a Jew to death, but would look the other way when someone else did. It is the normal people who make holocausts happen, the "good folk" who tolerate unspeakable evil.
-B. Alcorn
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