The quirk of authoritarianism often promotes most the most "confident". The most confident of all is often an idiot simply because his confidence is from being too stupid to realize how wrong he is.
Rapture them, please, then it would be heaven on earth ;). But if there was a more genuine rapture I suspect it would go more like the end of Indiana Jones with the Ark... But I reason out atheism with empathy in a natural laws universe, so it is all just fantasy to me.
Certainly racism. I was speaking at Harvard, when someone said "who brought one of 'those'"? That "one of those" was black, native, and female, she was there with me. We left shortly after. Tech communities claim modernity but often also are some of the very worst Nazis. Hence why I avoid SV.
Spite is a powerful force in American politics. When forced to desegregate many white communities chose to close community pools and remove drinking fountains instead. They were happy to suffer so long as those they hated suffered too.
That too is about memes, the memes of Rome living on when it should have died long ago. Decolonization begins with decolonizing oneself and language. End the occupation of the mind and you can then begin to free others too.
