February 06, 2004

Quote of the Day

I've noticed something about the way prejudice works. There seems to be a critical mass of people required for it. Not a big city, but a big enough town for there to be a long gossip chain and groups of people with nothing better to do than bitch and plot mischief. If an area is really, really rural..., there's just not enough population for this type of thing to work unless it's "imported" by people from outside (i.e. the homophobes in Laramie having a few six-packs and deciding to go "play" out of town).

Thomas Knapp

Posted by Russell Whitaker at February 6, 2004 09:36 AM | TrackBack
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I wonder if there is some way to quantify this, e.g. X number of people / km^2 or something similar.

Posted by: Terry Egan on February 6, 2004 10:37 PM
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