With the right amount of push on
the right button, anyone can go bonkers. So anyone can be racially, tribally,
politically, or whatever-ly biased - the sense of loyalty and support structure
for these things is deep. Our individual BS tolerance levels vary – that’s a
fact, but when push comes to shove, even the most impartial of people will take
sides, because even the calmest of people have their moments of fatigue.
It is easy to sit there saying
"sudon mahn" (if it were me), like you would’ve reacted differently,
and to judge others as being short tempered, but the truth is, if you’ve never
been as provoked, how you think you would’ve reacted is just a thought.
I am not saying it’s cool to be a
walking time-bomb; it isn’t. But let’s not forget that behind every explosion
there’s a detonator. So yeah, there are people who are quick to take offense,
but also some who are so adversarial that they’ll do things or make speeches,
mostly deliberately, just to make someone angry, knowing that ours will always
condemn the reaction and not the act that brought about the reaction.
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