It’s Okay as Long as You Hate the Right Group

"I’ve mentioned before that I lost a friend on 9/11. Not because she was on one of the planes or in one of the targeted buildings. But because she turned in an instant from being an individualist to being someone who wanted to throw every Arab (or every Muslim, she was never clear on that) out of the country and to force every other foreigner to wear special marks on their clothing. She saw neither the unfairness, nor the horror, nor the irony in that. She just feared and hated. What made it worse was that she kept expecting me to find her new views “reasonable.”