As my dad said this week, we won't acknowledge it but the British culture has always had a cruel, mean streak. We are a nation defined by our need for a snitch line, because someone, somewhere needs to be punished for rule breaking
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Is it really unique? That happened in: France: twice at least Germany: multiple times USA: once but big time(in 20th century). Russia: recurring China: this is the way
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What actually happens that there is a certain "image of the enemy", created implicitly or explicity, that's enough for some "litte" people to act in zealous fervor because that would say that they "did something". It's tribal instinct marrying confirmation bias.
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Which is what makes the government's response to the (tiny) far right anti-asylum protests so weird -- there's nothing the public likes more than a big crackdown on obvious wrong 'uns, especially a load of thugs with records for domestic violence and who were likely involved in last year's riots.
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But they've just surrendered to them, with predictable results.
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