General Discussion

We should be getting better at this Morality thing as we go along, having teachable moments everywhere we look.
"Woke" has been deemed weakness, but what is "strong" about being rude and cruel? So much easier to go with one's baser instincts and be an asshole.
Punching down is a really great way to demonstrate one's Manly Masculinity, and imposing one's will on others is a God-given Right if you're big and primitive enough to cow and intimidate people.
Worse still... They're teaching their kids to be like them.
In my seventy-four orbits around the Sun, I grew up in the Sacramento Valley with a a person raised in the Ozarks. White Supremacy was a way of life in my town, casually, where two-thirds of the names in the phone book were some version of Germanic and the three Black families "knew their place, and the myriad Hispanics were nearly invisible. Much progress has been made, and a generation-or-two might make us all Americans and able to share the good things living in Peace could bring.