Yes, but the group hate and group think in the US from a previous era think weren't organized in the way that PC is, and so IMO represents a different kind of horror. *
Undoubtedly. But PC is a different kind of group think, a group think of the haves, and presents a different danger than the racism it has helped to ameliorate. Today's solution is tomorrow's problem. Am I being paranoid that the spirit of political correctness which has resulted in less free speech today will lead to no one daring to criticize our glorious leader tomorrow? I hope so.
Don't get me wrong. I accept that PC has had more good results than bad, so far. But as with so many things, who watches the watchmen? To give just one example of PC excesses: the use of the phrase Native Americans to describe people who in the US were previously called Indians. The decree went out and those interested in being PC followed the call. There was only one small problem. A strong majority of those to whom the name now applied prefer Indian. So what happened here is that after killing most Indians and taking most of their land, seeing as they still had something left, the white haves circled back and decided to take their name as well.
In the old days people who were educated were the ones who had the courage to stand against the mob. Most of the pogroms that were stopped by anyone, from my limited reading, seem to have been stopped by high church officials. But now that the educated have formed their own mob, who will have the courage to stop them?
Personally I think you make a couple of great points RWB.
Where you talk about 'group think' I think this sort of thing is a common yet unrecognised issue. Going back to feminism, I see time and again, this extreme feminist movement purporting to speak on behalf of all women, usually against all men. In reality, they do not represent all women, and do not argue for things all women want. That's aside from them tending to throw all men into the same hole. Unfortunately though, theyve got the wind behind them because they stand for something we've all been told is a rightuous and legitimate movement, and we firstly don't challenge them because we dont generally comsider that in spite of their status as representing good against evil, what they migt actually be saying is a load of malicious horse ****, and secondly because if we do realise it's a load of malicious horse ****, we're too scared to say anything anyway, and too scared not to do what they tell us to do. And i say again, that's not just men, that's also other women. This small group of leftist aggresive women, are dictating society and behaviour to us all.
And that really deals with the second point of yours i was referring to above as well, namely standing up to the mob. And whilst i dont necessarily agree with you that the educated have become the mob, i do agree that theyve become so scared of the mob that they are unable and unwilling to stand up to it. Because the mob has become so strong, through it's influence, through the press,mthrough the way we have been taught we have to behave, that noone dares stand against it any more.

(know you wont apprecoate the laugh, but **** it it's late).