{"id":129004,"date":"2015-11-26T06:17:21","date_gmt":"2015-11-26T06:17:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2015\/11\/26\/its-one-thing-to-be-afraid-its-another-thing-to-cater-to-that-fear.html"},"modified":"2015-11-26T06:17:21","modified_gmt":"2015-11-26T06:17:21","slug":"its-one-thing-to-be-afraid-its-another-thing-to-cater-to-that-fear","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2015\/11\/26\/its-one-thing-to-be-afraid-its-another-thing-to-cater-to-that-fear.html","title":{"rendered":"It's one thing to be afraid. It's another thing to cater to that fear"},"content":{"rendered":"

I think a lot less of Southwest for truckling to the paranoia of a bunch of people so fearful of the world that they think someone who openly speaks another language or is apparently of another religion is a mortal threat to them.<\/p>\n

"We have nothing to fear but fear itself," said an America president in a time of much more mortal danger than we face today. Maybe some contemplation of what we're talking about when we sing of "the home of the brave" is in order.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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I think a lot less of Southwest for truckling to the paranoia of a bunch of people so fearful of the world that they think someone who openly speaks another language or is apparently of another religion is a mortal threat to them. "We have nothing to fear but fear itself," said an America president … Continue reading “It's one thing to be afraid. 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