 |
| Border security talks in DC; wary eyes over the Rio Grande |
Ethnic chauvinism is an
irritating and at times repulsive trait, but ethnomasochism is a thoroughly
contemptible affliction. If the former tendency runs the risk of dehumanizing
those outside of one’s own group, and ignoring crucial commonalities due to the
horseblinding effect that accompanies the inculcation of extreme prejudice, its
antithetical opposite proclivity leads a person to feel unreasonably righteous
by hating his own kind. That is, it causes one to feel morally upright by
embracing treachery, a trait
universally regarded as morally loathsome in nearly any other context.
